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Fresh or Green Herring in Jelly

4 servings

Ingredients

• 15 pcs cooked herrings
• vinegar (a little)
• vinegar or lemon juice (for seasoning) (a little)
• 5 sheets white gelatin sheets

Instructions

1. Cook the herrings as described for boiling, but add a dash of vinegar.
2. Remove the fish, reduce the fish stock by about half, season with vinegar or lemon juice, and strain through a sieve.
3. For about 15 herrings, add 5 sheets of dissolved white gelatin, bring to a boil once, and pour over the herrings arranged in a bowl.
4. Serve the chilled herrings with buttered bread or potato salad.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.