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Herring Casserole

6 servings

Ingredients

• 1 soup plate cooked, grated potatoes
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 top cup sweet cream, hot
• salt (a little)
• 6 pcs egg yolks
• nutmeg (a little)
• 2 pcs soaked, deboned herrings, finely diced
• 1 saucer onions, browned in butter
• pepper (a little)
• 6 pcs egg whites

Instructions

1. Proceed as for the potato casserole, but omit almonds, sugar, and lemon zest.
2. Instead, stir in a little nutmeg, the finely diced flesh of 2 soaked, deboned herrings, as well as 1 saucer of onions browned in butter and a little pepper into the potato-egg yolk mixture.
3. Finally, fold in the beaten egg whites and bake like the potato casserole.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.