An Excellent Herring Salad

Ingredients

• 1 whole Norway herring, large
• cooked beet-root
• cold boiled potatoes
• pickled gherkins
• 1–2 whole sharp apples
• hard-boiled eggs
• 1 whole hard-boiled egg yolk
• salt
• oil
• vinegar
• thick sour cream
• curled celery leaves or parsley

Instructions

1. Soak, skin, split, and bone a large Norway herring.
2. Lay the two sides along a dish and slice them slopingly.
3. Arrange in symmetrical order over the fish slices of cooked beet-root, cold boiled potatoes, and pickled gherkins.
4. Add one or two sharp apples chopped small to the dish.
5. Mince the yolks and whites of some hard-boiled eggs separately and add them to the dish.
6. Add any other ingredients at hand that may serve to vary tastefully the decoration.
7. Place these ingredients in small heaps of well-contrasting colours on the surface of the salad.
8. Lay a border of curled celery leaves or parsley round the bowl.
9. Rub the yolk of one hard-boiled egg quite smooth with some salt.
10. Add oil and vinegar to the egg yolk as for an ordinary salad.
11. Dilute the whole sauce with some thick sour cream.