BS: New Year's Herring Salad?

Subject: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:08 PM

Who's got a recipe for a traditional German/Scandinavian Herring Salad or similar?

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:21 PM

A few options here:
http://www.ifood.tv/network/german_herring_salad/recipes

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:23 PM

Some Scandinavians have lutefisk at New Year. You needed to make it a few months ago.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:26 PM

These seem interesting:

http://www.seafoodfish.com/html/anexcellentherringsalad1845.html



http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/gourmet_herring_salad

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: mg
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 10:49 PM

Should go well with the black-eyed peas. mg

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: open mike
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 11:38 PM

this one from one of those links sounds interesting..
http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/scandinavian_herring_salad

i have been enjoying pickled herring lately..
on a slice of rye bread...they make these small party breads..

with a dab of cream cheese...like Alouette or Rondele...
with herbs and spices and a chunk of pickled herring on top...

it comes in jars or tubs in the reefer section of the meat dept.

(unless you are lucky enough to live in Minneapolis/St.Paul where there is a store that has pickled herring in bulk) or in the Bay Area at the Scandinavian store which recently moved to San Pablo Ave.
(they have salt herring there as well as numerous flavors of the
pickled type...with mustard, sour cream, wine,, etc etc.

2709 San Pablo Ave
(between Derby St & Carleton St)
Berkeley, CA 94702
[phone]
www.nordichouse.com/

is there a tradtion of herring for new years?

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 11:50 PM

I was looking for pickled herring in the store today and couldn't find any, so I'll have to expand my search tomorrow. I didn't grow up in the south so I don't have any interest in black eyed-peas, but the herring is a healthy snack I enjoy year round. 3 or 4 pieces (I prefer the wine variety) at a time, right out of the jar.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:14 AM

For really great pickled herring, go to Russ and Daughters. Their store is on Houston Street in Manhatten. They do ship.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: open mike
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 02:26 AM

they have it in bulk here...http://ingebretsens.com in Minneapolis
or you might have to settle for Vita brand or Lasco. (or there is one more type in the square plastic tub...i forget the brand...)

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 04:35 AM

I usually just make my own herring in sour cream -- I use pickled (usually wine) herring, drain the brine, add sour cream, a bay leaf and some peppercorns (red peppercorns look nice).

Traditional in my family (German ancestry, Midwestern US) around Christmas and New Year's, but I, too, like pickled herring all year round.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 09:32 AM

HEY MAGGIE ... Do you remember that little corner grocery store right at the top of the hill where Madison st. becomes Glendale? For many years, the Norske gentlman would make his special pickled herring this time of the year. I just bought some and now I'm on my second jar!

The nice thing about pickled herring, just like raw oysters, is that you can eat the same piece many times! bad bad bob

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 10:52 AM

Lutefisk, Jack? I KNEW I was forgetting something...

Seriously, never had it and never will, unless it's used as torture and I can't "Just Say No". I almost tried some roasted silk worm larvae in Korea. I might have liked them, but you can't get good roasted silk worm larvae in the US, do why bother? I have never been tempted to try lutefisk.

Ever.

Linn's pickled herring is pretty good, though!

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:56 PM

Laurel, it's traditional where I'm from (Northern Germany) to have carp for Christmas dinner and herring salad for New Year.

I haven't had carp in ages (in fact my parents never did, either) but the herring salad is a wonderful thing. I made up my own last year after browsing online, but I was wondering if anyone here had their own recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Charmion
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 12:59 PM

I do, but you'll have to wait for it -- I'm at the office.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:09 PM

Post it, please! I'm looking forward to see what it's like.

Bob, my mother's cousin, Charles Husby, used to tell some really bad lutefisk jokes that inevitably made it into some column or other in the Herald over the years. Do you remember reading any of those? (Charles died a few years ago. I know some family members used to wince when Charles stood up to speak at family reunions and such, but he was so funny! There was always a group of us who would be laughing so hard, despite the glares from our parents. I think stand-up humor was not a typical Norwegian occupation. In real life, he was in the painter's local.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 01:33 PM

Maggie ... I do remember reading some in the Herald. By the way ... JUST STANDING UP ... is Norwegian humor!

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 23 Dec 10 - 02:52 PM

My local Tesco seems to have stopped stocking rollmop herrings in the run-up to Christmas...

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 09:59 AM

Darn it, I forgot to post the recipe yesterday. I'll do it for sure this afternoon -- it will give me a good excuse to take a break from the annual silver-polishing ritual.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 06:14 PM

Finally I get around to it. That silver polish can be rivetting stuff.

Herring Salad

This is a "cold table" dish, typically served with smørrebrød.

6-8 ounces (by weight) pickled herring, drained and sliced
1 cup diced cold boiled potato
1 cup diced pickled beets
1/2 cup diced peeled apple
1/3 cup diced onion
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 cup thick white sauce, or 2/3 cup heavy cream, whipped
Pepper and salt
Chopped parsley
1 or 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced

Mix the herring, potato, beets, apple and onion in a fairly large bowl. In a small bowl, mix the Dijon mustard, sugar and vinegar into the white sauce or whipped cream, and gently blend it into the herring mixture. Season the whole thing with salt and pepper. Finally turn the salad into a pretty dish and top it with slices of boiled egg, and a thorough sprinkle of chopped parsley.

If you can find salt herring, substitute a whole one (two fillets) for the pickled herring. Soak the fillets overnight before making the salad.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: michaelr
Date: 26 Dec 10 - 08:07 PM

Thank you, Charmion! That looks like a great salad. I'll try it out next weekend!

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 01:44 AM

Thanks, Charmion -- I'll have to try it, too.

BTW, lutefisk IS a bad joke... ;-)

My uncle always used to suggest lutefisk was best after it had been left on the doorstep to be, uh, "marinated" by cats...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 05:53 PM

Charmion, it's delicious! Happy New Year!

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:22 AM

Glad you like it.

Should you require good recipes for such Scandinavian delicacies as gravad lax, lamb-and-cabbage stew and kjottkake, just drop me a line.

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 12:23 PM

Is gravad lax the same as gravlax? Same recipe, different name?

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: michaelr
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 12:30 PM

I've been making my own gravlax for years, from a recipe by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. It's better than smoked salmon!

Subject: RE: BS: New Year's Herring Salad?
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 10:25 AM

Gravlax is just a contraction of the full name, gravad lax -- "salmon from the grave," so named because of the marinating process.

It is just as delicious as the very best smoked salmon, and much easier to make.