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| Behemoth |
How to do roll mops?Everytime I try it never seems quite right - recipes, hints and tips please. |
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| judith |
Do you salt the herrings first? | ||||
| Behemoth |
Can't remember. 
Definitely didn't for one recipe. |
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| judith |
Mine have never tasted quite right either, and I suspect it is because I started with fresh fillets, rather than salt herring. It's ages since I've made them, though, so I can't say exactly what was wrong.
That was a lot of help, wasn't it? 
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| Behemoth |
It might be that, they never seem firm enough. Possibly the sweet/sour balance as well. | ||||
| James |
Erikht's thread on herring recipes.
While it doesn't have roll mops as a recipe, he does start off with Sour Herrings, which look like the same thing, but just cut up into bits. I reckon give that a go but just keep the Herring as fillets and roll 'em up with the onion inside instead of layered as in his recipe. He uses salt herring in all his recipes.
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| Erikht |
Put the herring in layers with salt, about 3,5 kg salt per 10 kilo herring. Use plastic when making this, like a bucket or something like that. Other materials can be used, but plastic is more practical. Make a 26% brine, and fill the bucket up (or at least well over the herring. Put the bucket at a cold place (it must be less that 8 degrees Celsius, though it might well be colder - like in that spare fridge you got). Refill brine when necessary. Will mature in 3-4 weeks, and will keep for about a year in the fridge.
This herring will probably need to be watered out before use, and it should be unnecessary to say that everything should be clean all the time. Also, the Herring must be fresh. And yes, cover the bucket - preferably with a tight-fitting lid. Then Rollmops can be made. I think Oded Schwartz got a nice and simple recipe. |
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| Behemoth |
10kg of herring!  
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| sean |
I'm sure you can multiply the quantities if needed. | ||||
| Erikht |
The original recipe was for a 120 kg barrel. But you could do less, say a kilner jar. Shouldn't be too hard to do the maths. |
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| Behemoth |
If i get it right do I get a qualification? | ||||
| dpack |
argos do a set of nesting boxes to about 60lt largest and 2 smaller
ace for bacon /ham as well pressing in salt is a good way to use oily fish |