Fresh-Herring Salad

Ingredients

• two or three large Fresh Herrings
• a small quantity of salt
• lemon-juice
• two or three potatoes
• lj teacupfuls of salad-oil
• 1 teacupful of vinegar
• season with pepper
• and salt
• chopped capers
• small bunches of watercress
• some fillets of anchovies

Method

1. 1

   Scale and clean the herrings, cut off fins, and split them.

2. 2

   Rub with salt and lemon juice, and let sit.

3. 3

   Wipe, brush with warmed butter, and broil.

4. 4

   Boil potatoes, slice them, and arrange with herrings on a salad dish.

5. 5

   Mix salad oil and vinegar, season, pour over salad, and garnish with capers and anchovies.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fresh-Herring Salad. — (1) Scale and clean two or three large Fresh Herrings, cut off their fins, and split them lengthwise into halves ; rub a small quantity of salt and lemon- juice over them, and leave for a few hours. Wipe them on a cloth, brush over with a little warmed butter, and broil them over a clear fire, turning to do both sides equally. Boil two or three potatoes, taking care not to overdo them, Fig. 954. Fresh-Herring Salad. and cut them in slices. Lay the Herrings on a salad-dish with the slices of potatoes and a bunch of washed and care- fully-picked watercress on them, and arrange chopped capers and small bunches of watercress over and around the fish. Mix lj teacupfuls of salad-oil with 1 teacupful of vinegar, season with pepper and salt, pour it over the salad, garnish with some fillets of anchovies

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.