Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's gratin of cold cooked fish set in a border of mashed potato ringed with dumplings, layered with a white sauce of flour, cream, fish stock and plenty of cold butter, brushed with egg, sprinkled with rusk crumbs and baked 10 minutes over a water bath.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 133 (falt i det fri)
A leftovers dish from the fish chapter of Stor kokebok (1914), in which the previous day's cooked fish is built up in a border of mashed potato on the serving dish and briefly gratinated in the oven.
Potato dough
Stir the egg yolk, 15 g melted butter and 2–3 tablespoons milk into the sieved potatoes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Build the border
Place half the potato dough on a flat, ovenproof serving dish. Press it down slightly in the center and mark the edge with a fork dipped in flour. Roll the rest of the dough into small, round dumplings and set them close together around the edge.
The sauce
Put the flour in a saucepan and whisk it out little by little with the cream and fish stock. Add the cold butter in small pieces, set the pan over the heat and bring the sauce to a boil while whisking constantly. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Fill the dish
Lay the picked fish in large pieces into the potato border, layered with the sauce.
Gratinate
Brush the potato dumplings and the edge with beaten egg, sprinkle with crushed rusk crumbs and drizzle a little melted butter over. Set the dish in the oven (about 200 °C (390 °F)) over a water bath for 10 minutes, or until the potatoes are light brown.
Serving
Tuck a couple of parsley leaves into the center of the dish and serve at once.
Measurements are converted to modern units (deciliters, grams, teaspoons/tablespoons). "Pressed potatoes" is interpreted as mashed boiled potatoes forced through a sieve. Rusk crumbs are kept but can be replaced with breadcrumbs. The amount of cream for the sauce is estimated from the original method.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note til Modernisert
Mål er omregnet til moderne enheter (desiliter, gram, teskje/spiseskje). «Utpressede poteter» er tolket som potetmos av kokte poteter presset gjennom sil. Kavring er beholdt, men kan erstattes av griljermel. Mengde fløte til sausen er anslått ut fra originalens fremgangsmåte.
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