Recipe - Lowerstoft Herrings (English)

8 Herrings, cleaned
3 pt Salt water: use fresh
water salted to a rate
of 2 oz. salt to 1
pint of water
MUSTARD SAUCE
1 ounce Butter
1 tablespoon Level flour
1 teaspoon Good teaspoon dry mustard
Pinch of salt
Squeeze of lemon juice
One half pt Fish stock
1 tablespoon White wine vinegar

Place the herrings in the salted water, which has been brought to a rolling
boil. Bring back to the boil and boil guickly for 8 to l0 minutes. Drain
well, and serve with boiled potatoes and Mustard Sauce. Serves 4. Mustard
Sauce: melt the butter ovel a low heat and add the flour, stirring until
the mixture is smooth. Remove from the heat and add the mustard, salt and
lemon juice. Gradually stil in the stock and the vinegar. Bring to the
boil, stirring, and pour ovel the Lowestoft Herrings to serve.
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #275 by ray.watson@ukonline.co.uk on Mon, 7
Oct 1996.