Chanukah Recipes
Pickled Herring
Ingredients
- 3 mild herrings
- 1 large Spanish onion, sliced
- 1 teaspoon mixed pickling spices
- 1 lemon, sliced or 2 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 bay leaves
- 10 peppercorns or scant 1 teaspoon cracked pepper
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
Instructions
- Wash herrings, removing head, tail and fins. Soak in cold water to cover for several hours.
- Combine spices, lemon, bay leaves, peppercorns with water, vinegar and brown sugar. Bring to boil, set aside to cool.
- Slice fish into 1 inch slices. Place in sterilized pickling jar. Add sliced onions and cooled liquid to jar and cover. Shake to mix contents. Set in refrigerator for 2 to 3 days. Check occasionally to shake and push down onions. Bring up bottom pieces of fish to get top pieces down into liquid.