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Red Herrings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Red Herrings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make incisions in the skin of the fish.

  2. Soak the herrings in warm water for 1 hour before cooking.

  3. If there is any roe, pound it in a mortar with a little anchovy.

  4. Spread the roe mixture on toast.

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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