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

Erken's basic recipe for raw fish forcemeat made from scraped haddock with potato starch, salt, ice-cold butter, milk, and cream; ground 10 times and thinned carefully. Used for fish pudding or fish balls, with stock simmered from heads, bones, and skin.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 97 (falt i det fri)
The basic recipe for raw fish forcemeat made from haddock, in Erken's characteristic instructive tone. The forcemeat is the starting point for both fish pudding and fish balls, and the scraped-off skin and bones are simmered into stock.
Clean and age the fish
Clean, rinse, and dry the fish. If you get it late in the day, after rinsing it can hang freely on a stick overnight in a cool place.
Scrape the fish flesh
Cut the fish open from the tail upward, lay it on a clean fish cloth flesh-side down, and scrape the flesh from the tail upward. Scrape the bone as well. Scrape lightly so you don't cut out large pieces of fish flesh at a time.
Prepare the butter
Melt the butter and set the butter cup in cold water so that it becomes ice-cold again.
Grind the forcemeat
Grind the fish with potato starch and salt 5 times. Then grind 5 more times while adding the ice-cold butter a teaspoon at a time.
Thin with milk and cream
Put all the forcemeat in a dish or bowl and stir while thinning it a little at a time with cream and milk that were boiled the day before. Thin carefully – the forcemeat separates at first, and you must not add more before it is fully stirred together.
Test-cook and season
Cook a test ball to see whether the forcemeat is suitably loose or firm, and judge for yourself whether it needs more salt or nutmeg. Without a grinder, the scraped fish can be pounded with salt and potato starch in a marble mortar, a trough, or a sturdy dish. The forcemeat must be worked in a cool place.
Shape pudding and balls
The forcemeat may be looser for pudding than for balls. For pudding, fill it into a greased mold, about 1/2 kg for 6 people; shape the rest into balls and set them aside in the fish stock.
Simmer stock
Simmer stock from the heads (without the eyes), bones, and the skins that are not removed and dried into "coffee skins."
Measures have been converted to modern units (spoon = tablespoon, del. = deciliter). "Grinder" is interpreted as a meat grinder, and it is noted that the modern alternative is a food processor. Ingredient amounts have been standardized; nutmeg is listed as optional as the original suggests.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Mål er omregnet til moderne enheter (ske = spiseskje, del. = desiliter). «Kvern» er tolket som kjøttkvern, og det er presisert at moderne alternativ er food processor. Ingrediensmengder er standardisert; muskat er angitt som valgfritt slik originalen antyder.
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