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AN EXCELLENT HERRING SALAD
Photo: Anna Pelzer

AN EXCELLENT HERRING SALAD

7 ingredients 3 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

426
Calories
33g
Protein
21g
Fat
26g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Beef 100g cooked 250
Apple 1 medium (182g) 95
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Herring not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a pound of cold beef cut into small thin shavings
  • two sides along a dish
  • two fine dutch herrings
  • two sharp apples chopped small
  • one hard-boiled egg quite smooth
  • salt
  • vinegar

Directions

1

(_Swedish Receipt._)

2

Soak, skin, split, and bone a large Norway herring; lay the two sides along a dish, and slice them slopingly (or substitute for this one or two fine Dutch herrings). Arrange in symmetrical order over the fish slices of cooked beet-root, cold boiled potatoes, and pickled gherkins; then add one or two sharp apples chopped small, and the yolks and whites, separately minced, of some hard-boiled eggs, with any thing else which may be at hand, and may serve to vary tastefully the decoration of the dish. Place these ingredients in small heaps of well-contrasting colours on the surface of the salad, and lay a border of curled celery leaves or parsley round the bowl. For sauce, rub the yolk of one hard-boiled egg quite smooth with some salt; to this add oil and vinegar as for an ordinary salad, and dilute the whole with some thick sour cream.

3

_Obs._—“Sour cream” is an ingredient not much approved by English taste, but it enters largely into German cookery, and into that of Sweden, and of other northern countries also. About half a pound of cold beef cut into small thin shavings or collops, is often added to a herring-salad abroad: it may be either of simply roasted or boiled, or of salted and smoked meat.

By Eliza Acton · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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