Herring milts (soft roes) on toast

My mother used to make this often for me and, luckily, I loved it. Herring roes strike me as one of those old-fashioned things that people do not care for any more. This is a great shame, as they are oh-so-properly-tasty, delightfully savoury and creamy with a faint and intriguing bitterness. The Russians may have caviar on blinis, but we have milts on hot toast. You find them in fishmongers and in the deep-frozen section of supermarkets. The word roes implies these come from the females, b