- Yield: 1 boiler full
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Serving: 6 people
Fish & Brewis - Traditional Newfoundland
By Bonita's KitchenOctober 18, 2016
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I guess you are looking for a recipe for fish and brewis.
If so look no further, I have a delicious recipe here plus a step by step video tutorial on how to make fish and brewis.
So sit back a make yourself a snack and cup of tea and start the video 🙂 Enjoy
Fish and Brewis is a meal made up of salt cod, hard bread, potatoes, onions and savoury. Mixed together and topped with fried onions and fat pork, called scrunchions. Some people will have a big slice of sweet molasses homemade bread and a cup of steeped black tea.
This is just a quick recipe for making fish and Brewis.
This is a link to another delicious meal you can make with hard bread, moose and Brewis.
Left over fish and Brewis are made into fish cakes, another link to this delicious meal.
Traditional Newfoundland Fish Cakes
Traditional Newfoundland Toutons and Frozies
Traditional Newfoundland Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread
These are the other links to food traditionally served with Fish and Brewis. I also have a recipe for homemade hard bread.
Traditional Newfoundland Homemade Hard Bread
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Ingredients
- Salt Cod fish - 1 lb boneless or more
- Onions - 2 Medium, peeled and chopped
- Potatoes - 4 Medium, peeled
- Salt fat Pork - 1 Piece about 1/4 Cup
- Hard Bread - 2 Pieces
- Butter - 2 tbsp
- Pepper - Pinch
- Sea salt - Pinch
Instructions
1 - Soak over night in separate bowls your salt cod fish and hard bread, drain water from both before adding to saucepan.
2 - In a medium saucepan add water and start the boil on your potatoes about 15 minutes or fork tender, in a frying pan start frying your pieces of fat pork, butter or fatty bacon. When your fat pork starts to fry add your chopped onions continue frying until golden brown.
3 - In another saucepan add water and start your salt cod fish boiling for 10 to 15 minutes, then when your potatoes have boiled remove them from the pot and scoop into a bowl keeping the water for hard bread.
4 - Before adding soaked hard bread to the potato water, drain water from the soaked hard bread, then add hard bread to potato hot water and turn off the heat keep soaked hard bread in HOT water for 5 to 15 minutes or until ready to use.
5- Only use boneless salt cod, when salt cod fish have cooked remove from saucepan and flake apart, now this is when you start to add everything together, potatoes, fish, hard bread, fried onions and fat pork or bacon, salt and pepper to taste, fold everything together then serve.
This is just a quick recipe for making fish and Brewis.
In Newfoundland and Labrador on Christmas Eve, most everyone made this on Christmas Eve.
This was a old tradition that have been forgotten over our generations, hopefully we can keep it alive by making this dish our house old favourite.
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bread, Fish, White Flour
I love fish and brews and everyone makes it a little different to meet their needs, I like the fried up fat pork crispy and lots of butter with fried onions to pour over the top of my fish and brewis. My husband likes the fish cakes from the fish and brewis, haha I believe it’s the same only one is fried in patties. 🙂 Whatever way you enjoy this delicious meal it will be lovely.
I will share with you a link to our delicious bread
Traditional Newfoundland Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread
These bread is the best thing ever to have with your fish and brewis meal, some how it goes together.
Then fish and Brewis topped off with scrunchions and fried onions, Scrunchions is fat pork fried until crispy.
Then poured over your meal to bring this delicious fish and brewis to another level of goodness.
So many wonderful meals you can make with salted fish but by far this one must be my favourite, I also love fish cakes and they are pretty much the left overs from your fishand potatoes, mashed together and formed into patties.
I will share the link to my homemade fish cakes recipe for you to enjoy.
Traditional Newfoundland Fish Cakes
Sometimes I like serving fish and Brewis with a couple of toutons now what a lovely way to enjoy a delicious meal.
……..and I’m going to share another link for homemade toutons so you can have easy access to these delicious recipes.
Traditional Newfoundland Toutons and Frozies
Newfoundland History:
Years ago fish and Brewis was a very popular meal, cod fish was plentiful fishermen and most Newfoundland and Labrador people would salt their cod fish to keep for the winter months and it was easy to store this way. The same goes for hard bread you can have bags of them and it would never go bad.
Hard bread, also known as Hard Tack, is a firm biscuit baked in a time honoured tradition to create its unique texture. This type of biscuit was onced used by sailors to replace bread, owing to its long shelf life.Hard Bread is predominantly used to prepare traditional Fish and Brewis, but is also used with other dishes such as wild game and bacon, or on its own as a snack or bread puddings.
Traditional Newfoundland Homemade Hard Bread
Gluten Free Hard Bread
This is my recipe for hard bread just incase you can’t find any in the stores to buy you can make your own to enjoy whenever you need it.
You can soak it over night to use the next day or soak it early in the morning to use for making supper. I can remember years ago making just hard bread warmed with butter and sugar over the top it was so tasty.
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