Baked White Herrings

Ingredients

• 12 herrings
• 4 bay-leaves
• 12 cloves
• 12 allspice
• 2 small blades of mace
• cayenne pepper and salt to taste
• sufficient vinegar to fill up the dish

Instructions

1. Take the herrings, cut off the heads, and gut them.
2. Put them in a pie-dish, heads and tails alternately, and, between each layer, sprinkle over the above ingredients.
3. Cover the fish with the vinegar, and bake for 1/2 hour, but do not use it till quite cold.
4. The herrings may be cut down the front, the backbone taken out, and closed again.
5. Sprats done in this way are very delicious.