Harengs à la Livonienne (Smoked Herring Salad Moulded as a Herring)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Lift the fillets from fine smoked herrings, reserving the heads and the tails.
  2. Skin the fillets and cut them into dice.
  3. Add the same quantity of diced cooked potato and of diced reinette apple.
  4. Season with chopped parsley, chervil, tarragon and fennel, and dress with oil and vinegar.
  5. Arrange the salad in the shape of a herring.
  6. Put a head and a tail back on each imitated herring.

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