An Excellent Herring Salad

Ingredients

• 1 large Norway herring (or 1-2 fine Dutch herrings)
• cooked beetroot, sliced
• cold boiled potatoes, sliced
• pickled gherkins, sliced
• 1-2 sharp apples, chopped
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, yolks and whites separated and minced
• curled celery leaves or parsley for garnish
• ½ hard-boiled egg yolk, rubbed smooth with salt
• oil
• vinegar
• thick sour cream

Directions

1. Soak, skin, split, and bone the herring.

2. Lay the two sides along a dish and slice them slopingly.

3. Arrange cooked beetroot, cold boiled potatoes, and pickled gherkins over the fish.

4. Add chopped apples and minced yolks and whites of hard-boiled eggs in small heaps.

5. Garnish with curled celery leaves or parsley around the bowl.

6. For the sauce, mix the rubbed yolk with salt, then add oil and vinegar.

7. Dilute the mixture with thick sour cream.