"The trick to pickling today is to
find fresh herring or fresh salted herring. Once you've pickled
it, use the herring in any favorite recipe, or just mix it as
I do, with sour cream, red onion, and dill, to break the fast
of Yom Kippur. It will keep for weeks." - Joan Nathan.
Pickling Your Own
Herring
6 Canadian herrings
1 tablespoon to 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup white vinegar or to cover
1 large onion, sliced
1 thinly sliced lemon (optional)
2 cloves
6 peppercorns
4 bay leaves
- Remove the heads from the herring and
scale the fish. Wash well, open them, and remove the milt (roe
of male fish). Clean the fish well, drain. Lay the herring and
milt in water to cover in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next day rub the milt glands through
a sieve or mash them well, and mix with 1 tablespoon of the sugar
and a few tablespoons of the vinegar.
- Place in a 1 1/2-quart jar in layers the
herring, onion, lemon slices, cloves, peppercorns, and bay leaves.
- Add the milt gland mixture, the remaining
vinegar, and as much of the remaining sugar as your taste dictates.
- Cover the jar and keep in the refrigerator
for at least 4 days.
Yield: about 6 cups (P).
Recipe from: Jewish Cooking in America
by Joan Nathan.
