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Salad of Herrings

Soak a couple of pickled herrings in milk for an hour to take out the salt. Bone them, and tear the flesh into flakes. Mix with them half a dozen cold boiled potatoes cut into slices as for potato salad, and add a salt-spoonful of finely-minced onion. Mix the ingredients thoroughly, and work lightly into them a simple salad dressing of oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. This salad should be a little moist, therefore add a spoonful or two of milk to the dressing if it is too dry. If liked, cold meat finely minced, sour apples, and boiled beetroot may be put into it. The dressing should be added just before the salad is about to be served. Probable cost of herrings, 1d. to 2d. each. Sufficient for five or six persons.