Ash keys as food

[Janne]

I will find a classic receipe and translate it.

all Swedish receipes are used using Salted, aged herring. A quick salting is not the same. I tried here, Me and a friend had a companyhere import deep frozen headless and gutted Herring from Canada, then we salted it and pickled it, but the result was not as good as with the proper salted herring.

Norwegian herring is a little bit smaller than the fantastic Islandic herring.

 

[Robson Valley]

I use the North American standard 4% acetic acid for many things.
Some cider, some wine, some balsamic. Never the cheap ones
except for a Raspberry Balsamic, cheap as Jet Fuel.
I agree, Toddy, depends on what you're making.

I like to use my young grape leaves ( for the grape taste) as my choice of greens
for everything until they mature and go tough and woody = done for the summer.
No amount of steaming can smarten them up after that.

There's not much off the trees to eat in the Taiga (Boreal Forest Biome.)
But the understory is nothing but berry bushes. If you can't pick 5 lbs/hr, you really need lessons.
10-15kg wild fruit harvested over a few sunny afternoons will usually see me through any winter
for fruit pies and preserves.

 

[Sundowner]

Slightly off-topic I know but I had roll mop herring in a pub on the Isle of Skye a few years ago - the best I've ever had, a sweet non-acid pickle that was delicious. I thought they came from Andy Race in Mallaig but they say not and I've not managed to find any to buy. I've tried doing them myself but I've just not got the recipe right

Try Aldi or Lidl? Most other supermarkets do them too? Best hangover cure I know of. Where I come from you have one of them with a glass of milk in the morning. Once you puked out your guts youll be ok !!!

 

[Broch]

Try Aldi or Lidl? Most other supermarkets do them too? Best hangover cure I know of. Where I come from you have one of them with a glass of milk in the morning. Once you puked out your guts youll be ok !!!

Sorry, yes, I can find loads of rollmop herring just none as nice as the Isle of Sky ones

 

[Sundowner]

Sorry, yes, I can find loads of rollmop herring just none as nice as the Isle of Sky ones

Ahhh noooo Mr Broch. Malleig and Skye ones are nice but NOWHERE NEAR as good as the ones you get at Hamburg's Sunday morning market. Hit the pub at 5am, have a few beers and when you call out of the pub at 8am get the Rollmops either sweet sour pickled or in dill spiced oil. All this with a bit of rye sourdough bread and a further cold beer and you're well on the way to an extremely nice day

 

[Janne]

Maybe you should try to use pickled Ash keys instead of the pickled gherkin in the Rollmops?
Using two toothpicks to hold them together of course.

I like eating buttered Pumpernickel to pickled herring (of all sorts).
Made in Germany. Denser than most other.
Real Danish Rye bread is almost OK too.

 

[Sundowner]

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Real Danish Rye bread is almost OK too.

Yes, but not as moist and grainy

 

[Broch]

Beauty seen through the bottom of a beer glass

 

[Sundowner]

Beauty seen through the bottom of a beer glass

Now you've got it