Baccalà

• 450 g/ 1 lb piece salt cod, soaked and desalinated
• 300 ml/ ½

Drain the soaked and desalinated fish, break it into pieces and put in a saucepan with the milk and bay leaf. Bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer gently for 10–12 minutes. Drain, reserving the milk but discarding the bay leaf.

Remove the skin and bones from the fish and put the flesh into a food processor. Add the garlic and pepper, then blitz, pouring in the oil in a thin stre