Classic Forshmak
Description
This appetizer is equally good on a weekday and on a holiday. It can be served at the table spread on bread and garnished with greens, used to fill small tartlet cups, or served in a shared dish. Now you know—serve the appetizer at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Here are all the ingredients we will need. If your apple is not tart, you will need wine vinegar. We will soak the bread pieces in water.
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Step 2
Peel the apple and remove the core; peel the onion. Cut into wedges.
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Step 3
Clean the herring. Remove the head and innards, peel off the skin, and remove as many bones as possible.
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Step 4
Don't bother trying to remove the small bones when we run the herring through the meat grinder—the bones will either be ground up or wrap around the blade.
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Step 5
Peel the boiled eggs and squeeze out the soaked bread pieces.
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Step 6
And run all our ingredients through the meat grinder.
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Step 7
Mix the resulting mixture. If your apple is not tart, now is the time to add vinegar to taste.
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Step 8
Forshmak is ready!