Fresh Herrings Marinaded in White Wine

Ingredients

• For twelve herrings
• one pint of white wine
• one-quarter pint of vinegar
• an onion cut into thin slices
• half a carrot cut into grooved roundels
• a faggot
• the necessary salt
• a few peppercorns

Method

1. 1

   Put the white wine, vinegar, onion, carrot, faggot, salt, and peppercorns in a saucepan and set to boil gently for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Place the cleaned herrings in a sauté-pan, pour the boiling marinade upon them, and let them poach for fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   Serve them very cold with the marinade, the roundels of carrot, and thin strips of onion.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRESH HERRINGS MARINADED IN WHITE WINE For twelve herrings, put one pint of white wine into a sauce- pan, with one-quarter pint of vinegar, an onion cut into thin slices, half a carrot cut into grooved roundels, a faggot, the necessary salt, and a few peppercorns

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