Herring Soup

Ingredients

  • 8 gallons water
  • 5 pounds barley meal
  • 4 herrings, meat pounded
  • Salt, pepper, vinegar, and herbs, to taste

Procedure

  1. Combine water and barley meal.
  2. Boil it to the consistency of a thick jelly.
  3. Season it with salt, pepper, vinegar, sweet herbs. Add the herring meat.

This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook Household Cyclopedia by Henry Hartshorne.