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- From uuneo!sugar!taronga!arielle Thu Sep 09 15:18:47 CDT 1993
- Article: 5853 of rec.food.recipes
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Path: uuneo!sugar!taronga!arielle
- From: aa782@cleveland.freenet.edu (Emilie Unkrich)
- Subject: Herring Salad
- Message-ID: <26jlfn$h18@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Followup-To: poster
- Sender: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Reply-To: aa782@cleveland.freenet.edu (Emilie Unkrich)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- References: <1993Sep7.182319.15702@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
- Date: 8 Sep 1993 04:01:59 GMT
- Approved: arielle@taronga.com
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- In a previous article, wklaus@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Walter Klaus) says:
- >My mothers origin was in North Germany and she use to make a magnificent
- >Herring salad around Christmas time. She used Salt herrings, soft boiled
- >eggs, beets, pickels, and ???. If anyone has a similar recipe I sure would
- >appreciate it.
-
- Hi Walter,
-
- Here you go!
-
- HERRING SALAD
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- Soak in water for 12 hours:
- 6 milter herring
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- Skin them, remove the milt and the bones.
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- Rub the milt through a colander with:
- 1 cup dry red wine or vinegar
-
- Cut into 1/4-inch cubes the herring and:
- 1 1/2 cups cold cooked veal
- 2 hard-cooked eggs
- 1 1/2 cups Pickled Beet Salad (recipie to follow)
- 1/2 cup onions
- 1/2 cup pickles
- 2 stalks celery
- 1/2 cup cold boiled potatoes
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- Prepare and add:
- 3 cups diced apples
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- Blanch, shred and add:
- 1 cup almonds
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- Combine the milt mixture with:
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons horseradish
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
-
- Pour this over the other ingredients. Mix well. Shape the salad into a
- mound or place it in a bowl. Garnish it with:
- Riced hard-cooked eggs
- Pickles and olives
- Sardelles and parsley
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- PICKLED BEETS
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- Drain:
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- 2 1/2 cups cooked or canned beets
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- Reserve the juice. Slice the beets. Place them in a fruit jar.
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- Boil:
-
- 1/2 cup sharp vinegar
- 1/2 cup beet juice
-
- Add and heat to boiling:
-
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 peppercorns
- 1/4 bay leaf
- (1 sliced green pepper)
- (1 small sliced onion)
- 1/2 teaspoon horseradish)
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- Pour these ingredients over the beets. Cover the far. Serve the beets
- very cold.
-
- This recipe came from my copy of Joy of Cooking, and I hope it meets your
- needs.
-
- Emilie Unkrich
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