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To Smoke Herrings

This recipe uses saltpetre.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the herrings and lay them in salt with a little saltpetre overnight.

  2. Hang the herrings on a stick through the eyes in a row.

  3. Prepare an old cask with sawdust and place a red-hot heater in the middle.

  4. Fix the stick over the smoke and let the herrings remain for twenty-four hours.

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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