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

To Salt and Smoke Herrings

Ingredients

true silver-stringed herring
coarse sea salt
dry sawdust
red hot iron

Directions

Clean the herring thoroughly.
Salt the herring and let them sit for 24 hours.
Run a stick through the eyes of the herring.
Hang the herring in rows over an old cask filled with dry sawdust.
Thrust a red hot iron into the sawdust to create smoke.

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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To Salt and Smoke Herrings