The basic recipe
1 kg / 2,2 pound pollock or other white fish (I use pike mostly)
½ – 1 tbsp. salt
2 tablespoons potato starch
2 tablespoons flour or corn-starch
100 g / 3,5 oz.dairy butter
1 litre / 2 pint boiled cold whole milk
½ tsp. pepper
½ tsp. nutmeg
2 ½ dl 0,5 pint boiled cream

This is how
Fillet the fish and run them 7-8 times in a mill or a food processor along with the salt, potato starch, flour and butter. Put everything in a bowl, if you run it in a food processor leave it in the bowl. Dilute with boiled cold milk a little at the time. Work the farce well between each time. Add spices and dilute at the end with warm cream.

If you make farce in a food processor make sure that everything is well mixed. Use a spatula to  gather the farce, then run the machine and repeat. The consistency should be fairly loose but absolutely not liquid. Fill in a mould and bake the pudding in a water bath for about 45-60 minutes at 150 C / 300 F.

Variations:
You can vary this basic recipe in many ways, for example by mixing in chopped shrimp, mussels or crayfish tails or crab claws. Green herbs like lemon balm or dill gives a different and good variant. Increasing the amount of nutmeg and skip the pepper all together another. To be honest farce of white fish doesn’t taste very much at all, so any variation you would like to try is worth trying. Mix ingredients of you choice into a small part of the farce, make a small ball and boil it and taste it, if it taste good mix the ingredients into the whole batch.

How too serve it
Here in Norway is the most common way to serve fish pudding is either fried in about ¾ inch thick slices or in some variation of white sauce, often served on tart shells as a starter with prawns and vegetables  as in the small picture above. More rarely you see see the pudding served with tomato sauce or other sauces or in connection with the wok. Lately I’ve actually tried it in the wok; cut the pudding in 1,5 – 2 inch pieces cut as one would cut potatoes for French fries. Fry the pieces golden together with  shrimp and  vegetables and good dash of sweet chili sauce or curry paste.