Mashed Red Herring (Indian Style)

Ingredients

• a large onion
• two hot green chillies
• the juice of a lemon
• a red Herring

Method

1. 1

   Put a large onion and two hot green chillies, all cut up into slices, into a basin, squeeze over the juice of a lemon, and soak for several hours.

2. 2

   Roll up a red Herring in paper, broil or fry it, remove all the skin and bones, and bruise it in a mortar, adding gradually the onions, chillies, and the liquor in which they have been soaking.

3. 3

   When the whole is well mixed, the preparation is ready for serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mashed Red Herring (Indian Style). — Put a large onion and two hot green chillies, all cut up into slices, into a basin, squeeze over the juice of a lemon, and soak for several hours. Roll up a red Herring

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