Smoked Herrings

Ingredients

• lie for one night in salt
• a small quantity of saltpetre
• a cask of sawdust

Method

1. 1

   Clean the herrings well and let them lie for one night in salt, with a small quantity of saltpetre mixed with it.

2. 2

   The next day run a stick through the eyes, and in this way thread them all.

3. 3

   Have ready a cask of sawdust with a red hot heater in the center of it; fix the stick over this so that the herrings hang in a row in the middle of it, and smoke them for twenty-four hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Smoked Herrings. Clean the herrings well and let them lie for one night in salt, with a small quantity of saltpetre mixed with it. The next day run a stick through the eyes, and in this way thread them all. Have ready a cask of sawdust

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