Pickled herring, Any good recipes

Anyone have a good pickled herring recipe...with step by step instructions?

Tried many years ago when we could keep herring but from what I remember it did not go so,well....

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg

If you do a "Google" search---"pickled herring recipes", you will get lots of choices.

I'm originally from England and as a kid, I remember my mother making pickled herring the Scottish way.

You scale and clean your herring and then cut it into chunks.
Put it into a deep baking dish--layer of fish, then a layer of sliced onions and keep repeating until all the herring is gone.
Pour a mixture of 50/50 water and white vinegar to cover everything in the dish.
Cover with foil and then bake in the oven.
Remove from oven, allow to cool and then enjoy.
The vinegar and cooking softens the bones and you eat them, the skin and the fish together with the onions.

The above is the general idea of the recipe. I plan to do a "google" search to find out cooking temps and times as well as how much salt and spices to use.

As you are Dutch, you are probably looking for a "roll-mop" type recipe.

Ralph

If you look down a couple threads, there's one listed under cooking herring.

Hey Ralph, ya I like the roll mops....was looking for that kind of recipe....

I did look at that other post and watched that video, but someone mentioned salt water herring are different.....so maybe our freshies will not work as well?

Cheers

Greg

I thought pickling was putting into can / jar with vinegar and leaving for a month or more? Onions is my great example! Beets are cooked first then added to jar and vinegar for the English pickled beets . . .

What is described in this recipe is, to me, just a type of cooking?

However - as typing this out - if the same recipe is done in a caning jar - then boiled for 30 or 45 minutes - is then 'preserved' via pickling?

I can remember (barely) a January when a new file returned back from leave with canned herring and moose meat. The moose meat was good. Can't remember much about the herring.

Maybe this post needs to move into the new recipes area . . ?

Hey Dinky - If you put a herring in a bottle of vodka, would it then be pickled? Or is the consumer of such liquid pickled? I'm not sure!

Pickled herrings is as it states pickled!! No need to cook, the brining solution will basically ferment the fish in the jar if left for a period of time. The solution basically cooks the fish.

Hey Greg........Put them in the freezer and in the summer we will take them for swimming lessons on the big pond.

I like that thought!

I think the pickled herring is associated with the herring out of the ocean. Ciscoes sold in the store are usually smoked more so with whats in simcoe.

Actually you can pickle just about any fish, even suckers are pretty good. Most recently I did salmon, it was excellent.

Here are some recipes to try, if you are so
inclined.

http://www.lloffion.org.uk/docs/the_herrin...erring_book.pdf

SDC

Myself and others are spending time to find herring recipes and as far as I know, no one has caught any yet.

If we don't catch any, we will have spent all this time for nothing!

On the other hand, I don't think catching them will be a problem.

SDC

Dinky,
Just leave em in the back of the F150 till March 15th.
That otta do it!!

Finesy