Name: To Salt and Smoke Herrings
Ingredients: true silver-stringed herring; coarse sea salt; sugar; dry sawdust

To Salt and Smoke Herrings

Ingredients

true silver-stringed herring
coarse sea salt
sugar
dry sawdust

Directions

Clean the herring thoroughly.
Salt the herring and let them sit for 24 hours.
Run a stick through the eyes of the herring and hang them in rows over a container filled with dry sawdust.
Place a red hot iron in the sawdust to smoke the herring.

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.