Salt Cod -- how to use it, cook with it?

[Peter the eater]

No these are large, salted and dried sides of fish. Like either whole filets or whole, headless, skinned fish. Looks like salt cod to me, bigger than hake I've seen. But is dried salt hake common?

I've never seen salt hake for sale around here. There are several species that get called hake, all of which belong to the order Gadiformes, but can be of the family Phycidae or Merlucciidae. The one I showed above is of the latter.

I'm guessing you saw salted red or white hake, from the family Phycidae. They're bigger and more common. Does the vendor know?

[johnnyd]

Anything else I should know about preparing salt cod? Thanks!

You can control the salt retention by the number of water-changes during the soak stage. Many say change that water often but I'll only do it twice for fritters. Your call.