Fish Fritters

 Once again, this recipe has beautiful ancient script handwriting that has to be Baba or even her mother, and is another recipe without measurements or proportions. All the fish recipes, including the upcoming "famous" ones come directly from the Sewall side of the family. Marcia Sewall (aka Baba) and her mother Marcia are both descended from the Sewall ship builders on the shores of Merrymeeting Bay in Bath, Maine. Somewhere along the way, they moved to CT and established Merrymeeting Farm in Stonington, CT. This blog is named after the farm and the bay. Stonington is where we were married (on Elihu Island), where Hi-Ho is buried, where my parents were married and where my father currently resides.

Ingredients

Cold cooked fish

1 onion

mashed potatoes

1 egg beaten

Process

1. Pound the fish and add peeled onion (I can only assume and chopped!) and pound with the fish. 

2. Add salt and pepper. 

3. Add equal bulk (as fish) mashed potatoes. 

4. Mix and make into paste with egg. 

5. Roll the mixture. 

6. Cur in pieces 3 inches across. 

7. Fry

8. Serve with a sauce (not specified but tartar sounds good to me!)

Baba's Baby Mug - a treasure from Marcia Sewall (the first?)

I have this wonderful mug that has been passed down to me. One memory I have of it was that HiHo used to keep it in the refrigerator with fresh bunches of mint from the garden. This silver mug, we believe given as a present when she was a baby has classic workmanship seldom seen to this day. I decided that I would take a picture of it and post it now, thought it will take me some time to get back to Baba's recipes!

Mima's Butter Wreaths

These were likely some sort of  Christmas gift from Marcia, not my sister Mush or my mother Hi-Ho, but  likely my grandmother Mima or even her mother, Baba! What a special treat in my recipe box! I like the incorporation of "angelica to suggest holly berries".