Name: The Plain Red Herring
Ingredients: 1 whole red herring; flour for dusting

The Plain Red Herring

Ingredients

1 whole red herring
flour for dusting

Directions

Choose a firm, fresh herring. If too salty, soak in lukewarm water for a few hours and dry with a cloth.
Wipe the herring and dry it well.
Make a few incisions on the back or slightly split it.
Rub the herring with flour or leave it plain.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.