Herrings for Value

by Mrs. Stanley Wrench

I like good food and I enjoy cooking it—that in itself would be
enough to make me enthusiastic about herrings. There is so much
flavour and tastiness in these fine plump fish ; and so many interesting
and delicious ways of preparing and serving them. Herrings
hot, herrings cold, herrings in pies, salads and hors-d'oeuvres.
Herrings for a quickly prepared strengthening breakfast, especially
in the form of kippers and bloaters, which are the easiest of all to
cook. A healthful lunch for school-children, or an appetising, easily-
digested evening meal—I recommend them all, with all my heart.
And what with fresh herrings, red herrings, kippers, bloaters, and
herring roes, you can ring the changes on herring meals almost
indefinitely.

The recipes I have chosen for this little book will give you some
idea of what can be done with herring ; and once you have discovered
how popular they are, I feel sure you will work out perhaps even
more successful dishes for yourself.

But before we come to the actual recipes, I want to say a word or
two about the wonderful value of herrings. I don't mean just their
cheapness (though herrings are cheap—a very few pence will provide
enough for a fine square meal for a whole hungry family !). It's the
amazing amount of first-rate nourishment in every one of these fishes
that makes them such a good " buy." Weight for weight, herrings
supply more strength, more energy, more solid satisfaction than
• almost any other dish you can put on the table. Even if you were
willing to pay double or three times the money, you simply couldn't
serve a better, tastier or more nourishing meal than herrings, kippers
or bloaters.

So you see that herrings are a positive blessing to your purse—
especially if it happens to be a purse that has to provide for the
appetites of two or three active children, not to mention a hard-
working husband.

I have scarcely touched upon the tremendous health-value of
herrings, because that point is dealt with in full on the following page;
but I do want to remind you here, that, with proper cooking, herrings
can be eaten and enjoyed even by those who suffer from delicate
digestion—steaming, grilling and boiling are the best methods of
preparation in such cases—and I can recommend herrings baked in
a fire-proof dish as a really delicious and digestible meal for anybody.