Baked Herrings

Ingredients

• 2 fresh herrings
• say 1 gill water
• say 1 gill vinegar
• 6 pepper corns
• 1 blade mace
• % teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Cleanse and dry the herrings; cut off the heads, tails, and fins.

2. 2

   Cut from the opening already made for cleaning down to the tail end.

3. 3

   Lay them on their backs; remove the bones; sprinkle the salt over them; roll them up, beginning at the tail end.

4. 4

   Place them in a small pie dish with the pepper corns and mace; pour over enough vinegar and water to cover them; bake in the oven for three quarters of an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Herrings. — Required : 2 fresh herrings , say 1 gill water; say 1 gill vinegar; 6 pepper corns; 1 blade mace ; % teaspoonful salt

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