Recipe: Salt Cod (Baccala) Stew

I was searching for bread recipes and the word "baccala" caught my eye as I had
just seen your request. This is copied from
http://www.users.interport.net/~sue/food/baccala.html
It is not a cream recipe, but perhaps it will lead you to one. I hope your
search is successful.

This is a simple stew that I remember my mother making; I've seen similar
recipes which use additional ingredients such as
olives. I do this one in a crock pot. I used to be able to get the dried cod in
little wooden boxes, and the fish rehydrated
and cooked nicely. However, lately I can just find it in non-boxed pieces which
don't seem to rehydrate as well.

SALT COD (BACCALA) STEW
(Source: Mom)
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Ingredients:
2-3 dried, salted cod fillets (about a pound?)
2-3 lb potatoes
3-4 big yellow onions
15 oz can of unseasoned tomato sauce (eg. Hunt's)

Soak several fillets overnight in plenty of water to rehydrate and remove the
salt. Cut up several (peeled!) potatoes in large chunks
and place in a crockpot. Cut up several onions and place on top of potatoes.
Place the fish on top of the onions. Pour tomato sauce
and one can of water over the fish and vegetables. Cook on low until potatoes
are done (5-6 hr?).

I especially like this with buttered cornbread (see the recipe for Country
Cornbread on this site) which cancels out the non-fat
nature of the recipe!

For more information and recipes about baccala, check out the 11/8/97 issue of
the Italian Food Guide:
http://italianfood.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa110897.htm