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From: "Pat Fogel" <>
Subject: Re: [CORNISH] Codfish on Sundays
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:15:42 -0500
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My mother was also Cornish, we didn't have codfish for breakfast, she would
Cream it and have it for supper, I, myself might have a peanut butter
sandwich instead. I didn't like the smell either, maybe thats why I'm not
a fish eater either.

Pat in Freeport, Illinois USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Millett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [CORNISH] Codfish on Sundays


> Your salted codfish seem to be like most of the things taken from memory.
> What we remember as being so vivid tends not to be nearly so exciting as
> we
> thought it was when we later re-visit it! It's almost a life principle.
> "Oh for those dear dead days beyond recall" as the song says!
> Brian of Yass in Australia.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On
> Behalf Of annestephens
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:52 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [CORNISH] Codfish on Sundays
>
> Ah, yes,
>
> Salted codfish every Sunday morning. Just the way you wrote about it. I
> did like it. A couple of years ago I sent for some salted codfish from
> The
> Vermont Coutry Store. It came in the same wood box with the sliding top.
> Somehow, it didn't taste the same.
>
> And Tuesday night was pasty night.
>
> Anne Stephens
> New Jersey
>
> Whose Cornish mining families all came directly to New Jerey from Cornwall
> to work in the iron mines.
>
>
> On 9/18/09 6:36 PM, "Carolyn Haines" <> wrote:
>
>> Hi, my cousin just called me to ask what we ate with the codfish every
>> Sunday morning. Now that got me wondering if any other Cornish families
> did
>> that in the USA?
>>
>>
>>
>> Codfish used to come in a white wood box. It had a slide off the top. The
>> fish was soaked in water overnight and then boiled on Sunday morning for
>> breakfast. I did not eat it. I hated waking up to the smell of the fish.
> To
>> this day I will only eat salmon that has not been cooked in the house (no
>> fish smell then).
>>
>>
>>
>> My Dad would make a small amount of hot mustard from a yellow metal can
>> (like a pepper can) and have that with the fish.
>>
>>
>>
>> Just wondering..
>>
>> Carolyn Haines
>>
>> Holt, Mi 48842
>>
>>
>>
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