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Dublin Potted Herrings
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Medium
Appears in
Published 1980
As in many other countries, so in Ireland there has been a long tradition of pickling, or ‘potting’, herrings to preserve them; and this tradition has not entirely died away even now, when fish can be preserved by other means.
Ingredients
- fresh herrings
- dry mustard
- salt
- peppercorns
- mace
- coriander
Method
Remove heads, fins and tails from the fish. Scale them. Wash them well and pat them dry. Slit them open underneath and gut them. Then place each herring on a board with its back upwards, and press down along the back bone until the fish lies flat. Turn it over and you will be able to remove the back bone easily. This done, divide each fish into two fillets.
Each herring fillet is now to