According to Historical Christmas Cookery, by Robert W. Peloton, this dish was a favorite of Eliza’s famous husband, Alexander Hamilton.
Herring Salad
4 lettuce leaves
2 large, raw salted herrings
8 potatoes boiled and diced
2 sour apples, diced
2 small beets, diced
6 eggs, hard boiled
6 small pickled onions
6 small gherkins
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons cider vinegar
Lay lettuce leaves at the bottom of a bowl and skin and bone the herring.
Cut into small pieces and sprinkle evenly on the lettuce leaves.
Now place the sour apples, beets, and potatoes.
Garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs, pickled onions, and gherkins.
Dress with a mixture of cider vinegar and olive oil.
What do you think? Does it sound good? I couldn’t get past the raw herring!
The sound of fish tacos at first sounded nasty until I tried it. This might not be too
I could eat this EXCEPT for the raw herring.
Thank you for sharing. I don't eat a lot of these ingredients. I guess I'm a very picky eater.
Cindi Knowles
We always had pickled herring to ring in the new year for good luck as I was growing up - I'll have to share this with some of my siblings and my parents.
I will have to pass on this one. Herring is not for me. I'm not a big seafood person to begin with. However, I enjoyed reading about it.
I can't imagine the amount of time and energy it takes to research history to learn all of these recipes and what they liked to eat and drink back in the day.
I do appreciate you sharing and taking the time to post everything.