Iceland: Cooked Herring with Lemon Sauce and Potato Ring (Soðinn Silungur...)

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      Title: Cooked Herring with Lemon Sauce and Potato Ring
 Categories: Icelandic, Fish
      Yield: 6 servings
 
      2 lb Herring
           Water
           Salt

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  1 1/2 lb Potatoes
      1    Grated or chopped onion
      2    Slices white bread
      2    Eggs
    1/2 c  Milk
    1/4 c  Butter
           Salt and pepper to taste

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      2 tb Butter or margarine
      2 tb Flour
      2 c  Fish broth
      2    Egg yolks
    1/2 ts Salt (if fish broth is not
           -sufficiently salted)
           Juice of 1 lemon
 
  Peel potatoes and cook until soft.  Drain and mash or rice the
  potatoes. Cover bread with milk and let stand for a few minutes.  Mix
  together the potatoes, grated onion, bread, and milk.  Season with
  salt and pepper. Add melted butter and beaten egg yolks.  Beat egg
  whites stiff and fold in.  Butter a ring mold and sprinkle with bread
  crumbs.  Put potato mixture into mold and bake in a moderate oven
  (375F) until nicely browned.

   Turn out on serving platter.  While potato ring is baking, clean,
  bone, rinse and fillet herring.  (Frozen herring fillets may be
  used.)  Cut fillets in pieces and cook in boiling salted water only
  until tender. Carefully remove and drain herring and place in center
  of potato ring. Pour lemon sauce over herring and serve.
  
  For lemon sauce:  Melt butter or margarine and add flour.  Stir until
  well blended.  Add fish broth slowly, stirring constantly.  Beat egg
  yolks and add salt.  Add to sauce, a little at a time, stirring
  briskly.  Do not boil after eggs are added.  Add strained lemon juice.
  
 
 
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