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Anchovy Salad

4 servings

Ingredients

• anchovies (as needed)
• capers (as needed)
• small gherkins (as needed)
• Braunschweig sausage, in slices (as needed)
• marinated eel (as needed)
• morels (as needed)
• smoked salmon (as needed)
• remoulade sauce (as needed)
• lemon slices (as needed)

Instructions

1. Soak and debone the anchovies.
2. Arrange them in a salad bowl with plenty of capers, small gherkins, sliced Braunschweig sausage, and marinated eel, which is first split and cut into finger-thick pieces.
3. Optionally, add morels and a few slices of smoked salmon.
4. Pour remoulade sauce over it and garnish with lemon slices.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.