Recipe - Home Cured Herring

2 cup Dry white wine
1 cup White vinegar
1 cup Water
One half cup Fine sea salt
One half cup Light brown sugar
3 tablespoon Pickling spice
2 Dry hot peppers ; (to 3)
1 lg Onion; thinly cut or sliced up
1 tablespoon Black peppercorns
2 pound Scaled and gutted fresh
herring
=== FOR SERVING ===
Black bread
Sour cream
Thinly cut or sliced up sweet onions

In a noncorrosive pot, combine all ingredients except fish. Bring to the
boil, reduce, and simmer for 30 minutes. Add fish to simmering brine and
poach 12 minutes before removing from the heat. Let stand to cool 1 hour
before placing in a noncorrosive container large enough to hold all the
liquid. Cover container and refrigerate fish totally submerged in brine for
3 days. Serve with black bread, sour cream, and onions. This recipe yields
8