Taramasalata

• 1 slice white bread
• 1 large clove garlic, crushed
• 225 g

Wet the bread and squeeze it out so that it is moist but not sopping. Put it in a bowl with the crushed garlic and the cod’s roe. Preferably with an electric mixer, but failing that with a wooden spoon, beat the roes until smooth. Gradually add the oil, as though you were making mayonnaise (that is, drip by drip at first, beating each dribble of oil in before you add the next). Gradually the co