Stuffed Herrings

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

  • About

As cooked on the Rye Marshes.

Ingredients

  • 6 herrings, cleaned
  • 4 tablespoons (60 g) white breadcrumbs

Method

Mix together the breadcrumbs, parsley, suet, lemon rind and milk and season with salt and pepper. Stuff the fish with the mixture and put them in a buttered pie dish on their backs. Cut each bacon slice in half, roll up and pack among the fish. Sprinkle with the oatmeal, then bake at 400°F (200°C, Gas Mark 6)