Cookbook:Herring soup

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Ingredients

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

Procedure

1. Take 8 gallons of water, and mix it with 5 pounds of barley-meal.
2. Boil it to the consistence of a thick jelly.
3. Season it with salt, pepper, vinegar, sweet herbs, and, to give it a gratifying flavor, add the meat of 4 red herrings pounded.

This page incorporates text from the public domain 1881 Household Cyclopedia.