This section is from the book "Indian Cookery And Confectionery", by I. R. Dey. Also available from Amazon: Indian Cookery And Confectionery.
Fish 1/2 seer, potato 1 1/2 powa, milk and butter 1 chhatak [each, 3 or 4 hen's eggs, flour about 1 powa, salt 1 tola, syrup of sugar.
Boil pieces of a big fish and remove the bones. Add boiled and pasted potatoes, then all the other ingredients and lastly flour little by little while beating the mass thoroughly. Form small balls and fry in ghee. Serve while hot. Or, prepare as above with only half the amount of salt and keep the fried balls immersed in a syrup of sugar till they are saturated. Then serve.
 
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