Mixed haring salad (Haringsla)

Traditional recipe from The Netherlands

• 1 small cooked beetroot
• 2 cooking apples
• some (pickled) onions and gherkins
• 8 cold cooked potatoes
• 2 hard boiled eggs
• some lettuce or curly endives
• 2 tbsp of salad oil
• 1 tbsp of vinegar
• salt
• mayonnaise
• 3 fresh salted herrings

Bone the herrings and cut them in small pieces. Keep a few pieces for decorating.

Cut the peeled beetroot and apple pieces. Chop the onions, gherkins and potatoes and one egg.

Wash the lettuce or endives and shred it very finely.

Put all these ingredients in a big bowl. Mix it well with salad oil, vinegar and salt.

Put the salad on a flat dish and smooth the top with a wet spoon.

Coat the salad with mayonnaise and decorate with quarters of egg, pieces of haring and surround it with very small bits of 'yellow' lettuce (the inside leaves).

Serve it with toast and butter or, if served for lunch, with bread and butter.