JennyMorgan Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 It's that time of the year when longshore herrings are available in the Broads area, especially near to the coast. Three makes a good helping, best served with buttered 'tiger'bread. Buy fresh so expect to have to gut them but leave the heads on, crisply fried herring eyes are delicious! Lightly floured, into hot oil until the skin is nicely browned and the gills curl up and go crisp. If you are lucky then when you gut the fish you'll find the milts, fried to a crisp these are gorgeous! Good cooked on a barbecue too. Have a bottle of real vinegar on hand, some folk also like black pepper. Cooking at home then best do it in the garage, saves stinking the house out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 And you'd cook them on your boat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 Certainly would although I tend to use a small BBQ on the bank. They taste even better out in the open. Some get used as deadbaits for pike though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Mouse Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Fresh soft herrings roe the best taste ever, grilled on toast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 17 minutes ago, Daddy Mouse said: Fresh soft herrings roe the best taste ever, grilled on toast. I'll give that a go, new one on me, thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitrunner Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 1 hour ago, JennyMorgan said: Certainly would although I tend to use a small BBQ on the bank. They taste even better out in the open. Some get used as deadbaits for pike though You would be smelling of herring for months cooked onboard BBQ on the bank sounds good I still think fresh mackerel on the BBQ or if your brave try them sushi style, just minutes out of the sea. You will be surprised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyndham Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Is a Herring any different to a Sardine, or are they the same? Sardines in Portimao... delicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Mouse Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 9 minutes ago, Wyndham said: Is a Herring any different to a Sardine, or are they the same? Sardines in Portimao... delicious. Sardines and herrings belong to the samefamily of fish. You may hear it referred to as the herring family, but their scientific name is Clupeidae. Fully grown sardines and herringshave a milder flavor than their canned counterparts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 12 minutes ago, Baitrunner said: You would be smelling of herring for months cooked onboard BBQ on the bank sounds good I still think fresh mackerel on the BBQ or if your brave try them sushi style, just minutes out of the sea. You will be surprised. I've eat raw joey mackerel served with lemon before now and they have been surprisingly good. Tried ultra fresh herring just once but the blessed things kept jumping off the fork 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 We used to get delicious herrings fried in oatmeal when I lived in Scotland many years ago. Sashimi mackerel was one of the great treats when boat fishing in the channel. Fresh mackerel slashed gown the flanks, rubbed with oil, salt, grated orange zest and garlic, then barbecued on the beach on a warm summer evening is the way to go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Roll-mop herrings for breakfast in the Dorint Hotel near Schiphol were our particular favourite after a night flying around Europe. Washed down with a few glasses of Deutscher Sekt! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound2Please Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 10 hours ago, Daddy Mouse said: Fresh soft herrings roe the best taste ever, grilled on toast. When we had the Dog & Pheasant, one of the local fishermen, used to bring us in a bucket of really fresh milts straight from the fish, as the person they supplied wanted them removed. We then dished them up as free bar snacks. The regulars loved them. He also brought in fresh from the trawl sprat's, that again the wench lightly floured and deep fried, as bar snacks. At other times, he would bring in fresh live whelks, that she cooked up Essex stile as bar snacks. They were never on the bar very long, young fresh whelks cooked in the old Style of coastal Essex. If you want to know how its done ask the Wench. Charlie 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound2Please Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Hockham Admiral said: Roll-mop herrings for breakfast in the Dorint Hotel near Schiphol were our particular favourite after a night flying around Europe. Washed down with a few glasses of Deutscher Sekt! I agree there mate, but Southern North Sea herrings sadly are just to oily, a mate of ours used to get Scottish herrings in to pickle. The local fishermen to import rollmops from I think Norway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracie Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Oh perleease All sounds gross to me. I know of a really nice place you can get some yummy fish, it's called a chippy Grace 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 Chippies are great, Gracie, for folk who want fish that might be weeks rather than days, even hours or minutes old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 4 hours ago, JennyMorgan said: Chippies are great, Gracie, for folk who want fish that might be weeks rather than days, even hours or minutes old! Or chips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Speaking of old fish I'm sure JM will also remember the shop opposite Yarmouth pier that would post a pair of bloaters to anywhere in the country. An aunt and uncle had a caravan at North Dens and always sent a box to us when they were up - ambrosia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, stumpy said: Speaking of old fish I'm sure JM will also remember the shop opposite Yarmouth pier that would post a pair of bloaters to anywhere in the country. An aunt and uncle had a caravan at North Dens and always sent a box to us when they were up - ambrosia! I do indeed remember them! Coincidentally we had bloaters from The Lowestoft Smokehouse the other day, very acceptable they were too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Mouse Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 On 11/11/2017 at 14:45, JennyMorgan said: Chippies are great, Gracie, for folk who want fish that might be weeks rather than days, even hours or minutes old! Try the chippe in Stalham one of the best i have ever been to. Fish is absolutely beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRolaves Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Plenty of Herring to be caught off Southwold and all along the Suffolk and Norfolk coast at present, they arrived late October and will be around until March 18. Dave R..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound2Please Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 15 minutes ago, DaveRolaves said: Plenty of Herring to be caught off Southwold and all along the Suffolk and Norfolk coast at present, they arrived late October and will be around until March 18. Dave R..... Yes but herring quota for East Anglia and the Thames Estuary will be filled long before March 18, sprat's that will arrive around Christmas / new year don't get a quota on them mind. Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRolaves Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Last year 2023 the herring arrived off southwold late September and remained there in numbers until March Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham47 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 On 10/11/2017 at 22:28, Daddy Mouse said: Fresh soft herrings roe the best taste ever, grilled on toast. I agree. Definitely the best part of the herring. Very expensive to buy separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MainbraceSplicer Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 Herrings? I love 'em. I used to be able to buy them in my local farm shop in tins. They were pickled in a vinegar mixture with dill and other herbs. The tins were of a Continental make and I think originated from Germany. I believe the Germans called the brathering. I have tried to buy herrings and make my own without success. Anyway, rollmops will have to do for the time being. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRolaves Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 The herring should appear in numbers off the east Anglian coast soon. I fish for them off southwold from early october until end of April the following year - they can still be caught with drift nets in numbers - once a staple food for people living off the east anglian coast and followed down the north sea by Scottish drifters as far south as Lowestoft in times gone by. Dave R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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