Apple & Pickled Herring Salad with a Creamy Dill Dressing

Sour, sweet or salty, creamy, crispy or crunchy – apples seem to complement almost any taste and texture. Their crisp, tart flavour is a perfect foil for pickled herrings (rollmops) in a creamy sweet and sour dressing.

This pretty salad -an old family recipe -is but one of a whole genre of Ashkenazi salads made with herring, fruit and vegetables -even nuts -bound with a sour cream sauce. It’s quite mild in flavour when tasted a few hours after preparation, but after a day or so it t