Red Herrings

Name: Red Herrings
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Serve with egg sauce or buttered eggs; mashed potatoes should also be sent up with them.; Serve with egg sauce or buttered eggs; mashed potatoes should also be sent up with them.; Serve with egg sauce or buttered eggs; mashed potatoes should also be sent up with them.; Cut them open, and pour over them some boiling small beer.; Make them just hot through before the fire, and rub them over with cold butter.

Great Yarmouth, 1823

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

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Method

Choose those that are large and moist.
Cut them open, and pour over them some boiling small beer.
Let them soak half an hour, then drain and dry them.
Make them just hot through before the fire, and rub them over with cold butter