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Kippered Herrings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Kippered Herrings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Split open the fish at the back with a small knife and remove the roes and guts.

  2. Put the roes and guts into pickle as for bloaters and let them salt.

  3. Hang the fish on sprat-frames to drip.

  4. Place two stretchers across each fish on a clean table with their backs upwards.

  5. Suspend the fish on the frames and smoke them until the backs are a bright yellow tinge.

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.

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