The Experienced English Housekeeper Author:Elizabeth Raffald Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 20 boil Herrings. SCALE, gut, and warn your herrings, them clean, and rub them over with a li vinegar and fait, fkewer them with their i in their mouths, lay ... more »them on your fifh pi when your water boils put them in, they take ten or twelve minutes boiling, when take them up, drain them over the water, t turn the heads into the middle of your d lay round them fcraped horfe-radifh, pai and butter for fauce. To fry Herrings. SCALE warn, and dry your herrings w lay them feparately on a bo.ird, and fet then the fire two or three minutes before you v them, it will keep the fifh from flicking to pan, diift them with flour, when your dripj or butter is boiling hot put in your fifh, a at a time, fry them over a brifk fire, when have fryed them all, fet the tails up one ags another in the middle of the difh, then f large handful of parfley crifp, take it out be it lofes its colour, lay it round them, and pa; fauce in a boat; or if you like onions bette them, lay fome round your difh, and make o fauce for them ; or you may cut off the h after they are fryed, chop them and put t into a fauce-pan, with ale, pepper, fait, an anchovy, thicken it with flour and butter, fl itj then put it in a fauce-boat. To bake Herrings.' WHEN you have cleaned your herrings as above, lay them on a board, take a little black and Jamaica pepper, a few cloves, and a good deal of fait, mix them together, then rub it all over the fim, lay them ftraight in a pot, cover them with allegar, tie ftrong paper over the pot, and bake them in a moderate oven; if your allegar be good, they will keep two or three months; you may eat them either hot or cold. 'To bake Sprats. RUB your fprats with fait and pepper, and to every two pints of vinegar put one pint of red wine, diflblve a penny-worth of cochineal, Ja...« less