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Herring Salad

Ingredients

• 4 salt Holland herrings
• 2 quarts of boiled potatoes
• Rhine wine
• yolks of 4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped up
• 12 pepper corns

Instructions

Soak herrings in water or milk for three hours; then remove the skin and back-bone and cut them into neat square pieces. Slice potatoes; while hot, put them into a dish and pour over them Rhine wine enough to moisten them; when cold add the herring and the yolks. Crush pepper corns in a napkin, with a knife-handle, add to the salad and mix all together. If milt herring are used, pound the milt to a paste, moisten with vinegar, add to the salad. If roe herring are used, soak the roe in vinegar for a few minutes and strew the eggs over the salad. If the herrings have been soaked too long a little salt should be added. The above is a true herring salad, though some add a little oil, but the majority prefer it as above directed.

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Source

Fifty Salads (1885).