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Eggs with smoked herring

Chopped smoked herring and hard-boiled egg (yolk and white separately) in rows on a dish, garnished with lettuce and tomato, with a sauce of butter, flour, spinach and cream. From Erken’s Stor kokebok (1949), p. 12.

Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1949-utg. s. 12 (falt i det fri)

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About the dish

The dish rests on the contrast of herring, yolk and white, arranged in rows and garnished with lettuce and tomato.

How to make it

  1. 1

    Make the spinach sauce

    Stir butter, flour and spinach together, bring to the boil with the cream and season with salt and pepper.

  2. 2

    Chop herring and eggs

    Chop the herring. Chop the yolks and whites of the hard-boiled eggs separately.

  3. 3

    Arrange

    Lay the herring and eggs in rows on the serving dish. Garnish with lettuce, cut hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes. Serve the spinach sauce with it.

Changes from the original

The text does not say how the spinach sauce is used; it is given as a sauce for the dish. Amounts carry no measures because the text gives none.

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Modernised → 1949 (proofread, p. 12)~78% of the text changedremovedadded
2 stk store hakkede røkesild (hakket). 3 stk hardkokte egg (plomme og hvite hakket hver for seg). smør (til spinatsausen). hvetemel (til spinatsausen). spinat (til spinatsausen). fløte (til spinatsausen). salt (etter smak). pepper (etter smak). salatblader (til pynt). hardkokte hårdkokte egg (skåret opp, til pynt). tomater (til pynt). Rør smør, Smør, mel og spinat sammen, kok opp med fløten røres sammen og smak til gis et opkok med fløten, irøres salt og pepper.. Hakk silden. Hakk plommene pepper salatblade tomater. Den hakkede sild og de hårdkokte egg, plomme og hvite av de hardkokte eggene hakket hver for seg.. Legg sild og egg sig, legges rad for rad på serveringsfatet. Pynt Pyntet med salat, oppskårne hardkokte opskårne hårdkokte egg og tomater. Server spinatsausen til.

Note on Modernised

Teksten sier ikke hvordan spinatsausen brukes; den er satt opp som saus til retten. Mengdene står uten mål fordi teksten ikke oppgir dem.

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Frequently asked questions

How is the dish arranged?
Herring and eggs are laid in rows on the dish, garnished with lettuce, egg and tomato.
What is the spinach sauce?
A sauce of butter, flour and spinach boiled up with cream; the text gives no amounts.

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