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Boiled Fresh Herrings

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash, scale, and empty the fish.

  2. Dip the herrings in vinegar.

  3. Skewer them in a ring with their tails in their mouths.

  4. Lower them gently into boiling salted water.

  5. Immediately draw the pan back and simmer softly for 6 to 8 minutes until done.

  6. Remove them as soon as they are cooked.

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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