Balls for breakfast!

Fish balls before frying

“For breakfast, the baked beans again – warmed over, of course – and fish balls. I don’t remember ever having fish balls on Saturday, but we never failed to have them Sunday morning. Sometimes rye-meal muffins instead of the brown bread, but beans and fish balls, always. A solid orthodox breakfast like that laid the foundation for the orthodox day that followed.”

— Joseph C. Lincoln in Cape Cod Yesterdays (1935)

A fishball was a fried New England concoction made of potatoes and fish stock, and usually eaten for breakfast.