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Fresh Herrings Marinaded in White Wine

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

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From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. For twelve herrings, put one pint of white wine into a saucepan, with one-quarter pint of vinegar, an onion cut into thin slices, half a carrot cut into grooved roundels, a faggot, the necessary salt, and a few peppercorns.
  2. Set to boil gently for twenty minutes.
  3. Place the cleaned herrings in a sauté-pan, pour the boiling marinade upon them, and let them poach for fifteen minutes.
  4. Serve them very cold with the marinade, the roundels of carrot, and thin strips of onion.