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Fried Salt Herring

4 servings

Ingredients

• salt herrings (as needed)
• milk (for soaking) (as needed)
• butter (for greasing paper) (a little)
• butter (for frying) (a little)

Instructions

1. Cut off the fins, remove the backbone, roe, or milt, and place the herrings in milk to draw out the salt.
2. Afterward, dry them, roll each herring individually in buttered paper, and pinch the ends closed to keep the fat and steam inside.
3. Prepared this way, place them in hot butter and roast in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
4. Arrange without the paper and pour the hot butter over them.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.