Fresh Herrings and Mustard Sauce

Ingredients

• herrings
• fresh butter
• three teaspoonfuls of mustard
• a gill of water
• the juice of one lemon
• a little vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Clean herrings, sprinkle with salt, butter a dish, place fish and add butter on top.

2. 2

   Bake for 15-20 minutes.

3. 3

   For sauce, combine mustard, water, lemon juice, and vinegar, boil, and pour over fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fresh Herrings and Mustard Sauce. — Clean herrings as before; only the heads should be removed. Sprinkle some salt inside and out of each fish. Butter a dish with fresh butter and place the herrings on it, and add a few pieces of butter on the top of the fish. Place in a hot oven. In 15 to 20 minutes they will be cooked. Into a small enamelled saucepan place three tea¬ spoonfuls of mustard, a gill of water, the juice of one lemon, and a little vinegar

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