Anne Marie Herman will spend an entire afternoon cooking food and frying fish cakes — but as soon as she places a plate of fish cakes on the table, they’re gone.

“Sometimes I even try to hide it but they find it before the meal,” Herman said.

Herman said her fish cakes are always a hit among her friends in the Caribbean Association of Madison (CAM). She orders small boxes of codfish from Canada, prepares a batter, and fries them in a large pan so she can make a lot of them at once. Members often ask her if she brought “fritters” to meetings or gatherings.

“Fish cakes are another thing I make often. You take codfish, you boil it — because it has a lot of sodium in it, so you wash it first. Then, you put it in the pot to boil,” Herman said.