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Baked Herrings

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. Small beer
  2. Cream
  3. Black pepper
  4. Allspice
  5. Salt
  6. Vinegar
  7. Onion
  8. Cloves
  9. a gallon of milk
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Wash and drain, without wiping them ;
  2. and when drawn, they should not be opened.
  3. Season with allspice in fine powder, salt, and a few whole cloves.
  4. Lay them in a pan with plenty of black pepper, an onion, and a few bay leaves.
  5. Add half vinegar and half small beer, enough to cover them.
  6. Put paper over the pan, and bake in a slow oven.
  7. If it be wished to make them look red, throw a little saltpetre over them the night before, BAKED MILK.
  8. A very useful article may be made for weakly and consumptive persons in the following manner.
  9. Put a gallon of milk into a jar, tie white paper over it, and let it stand all night in the oven when baking is over.
  10. Next morning it will be as thick as cream, and may be drank two or three times a day.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Colander