10 fascinating facts about the Queen of table the herring Bashny.Net

What Russian does not like salt herring? And also, Dutch, German, Finnish... Yes, a lot of the world's citizens highly appreciate this product! The website (licking his lips) introduces the reader to facts about herring, the Queen of holidays (and not only) table.





1. The man who gave the world a herring, a monument. Until the XV century, nobody has never thought she was bitter. And then the fisherman Willem Jacob Bickelton from the village Biervliet had thought to remove her gills — and then it happened gastronomic revolution: it turned out that all of the bitterness is concentrated in the gills, and without them, the herring made a splash and conquered Holland.

2. Joseph Heller called the Chapter of his book "the Role of herring in the history of mankind." The logic of the writer is this: thanks to the herring in Holland appeared prosperous national economy, the country entered the global market and provide goods of half of Europe, soon after, in 1600, a Dutch optics invented the telescope, and six years later Rembrandt was born.

3. In 1997 at the world Championships in ski sports in Trondheim occurred following the story of Aleksey Prokurorov. The athlete was not lucky with the weather: holding the lubricant on the slopes, frozen, slides were required to come up with something. In the end, the athlete, prompted by the cunning coaches, took the herring, he fumbled it over the surface of the ski, thus protecting the ointment from podmerzaniya, and took the gold!

4. Herring is surstromming — Swedish national product, delicacy with the most disgusting smell on earth, worse even than the famous stinky fruit called durian. In fact, surströmming is fermented herring.

In the XVI century during the military operations in Sweden was lack of salt. But to refuse on this occasion from herring, the Swedish people were not going to. Herring began to glaze sparingly: it disrupted the process of conservation, the product began to wander and emit a bad smell. But not so easy to scare Swedes eat pickled herring like a lamb, and after surströmming was introduced to the rank of delicacy.

Meanwhile, in order to deal with surstromming, it is necessary to have a truly Nordic exposure. The tin this product has a tendency to explode at that moment, when you open it, and pour all around the fetid muck. Then those who remained alive, pinching the nose, eat a vile of shmatock herring, eating potatoes and drinking beer. Usually all of this gastronomic extravaganza is not beyond the bounds of Sweden, many airlines prohibit the carriage of surstromming as substances explosive.

5. Herring day is celebrated in all Netherlands. The first barrel harringa, according to tradition, give Queen Beatrix, and then arrange a charity auction, concerts, songs, dances and festivities. Near us, in Kaliningrad, also brought such a holiday: satisfied gala concert "From notes to notes — all in honor of the herring."

6. The dream tells us: is herring in a dream — to frivolous actions, which then have to regret. To catch herring networks — are you ready to fall for the hoax, to be seduced by false promises. You are treated to a herring — want to cheat. You are treated — you are going to commit a dishonest act. You will have to pay for it with a vengeance.

7. Herring the battle was an important episode of the hundred years war. The French attacked the convoy carrying British troops herring. The British cleverly took advantage of herring barrels as cover — and at first repulsed the attacks of superior forces of the enemy, and then going to the counter, defeated the French. They then said, "What would we do, if not a herring?!".

8. Ucho od śledzia — ear herring — the leitmotif of the film is excellent Polish movie "VA-Bank". The replica is accompanied by a corresponding gesture means something between "Fuck you!" and "Well, eat?!"

9. Bismarck, they say, was once ordered to feed soldiers with a herring — say, cheap and cheerful. Said really is or not is unknown, but some enterprising fishery Manager immediately patented the name pickled herring Schlosskase Bismarck and made her fortune.

Bismarck do the pile of dishes gave his name unwittingly. Herring in Bismarck is boring: just marinate the fillets with vinegar, and all.

And you can try to modify the recipe. Soak herring in cold water hour commercials for four, then take out, dry with a cloth, put in a container on a layer of thinly sliced white onion. Top — a layer of thinly sliced Antonovka. Heat white wine vinegar and stir in it half spoon of buckwheat honey. Throw a few juniper berries, a few grains white pepper, Bay leaf (if kindergarten is not the suburbs you to him hunting). Pour the herring marinade and in the fridge, well at least for a day, better two. Eat cold sour cream.

10. Herring are different: Norwegian, Dutch, Atlantic, far Eastern herring (although she's first, small, and secondly, not herring. Biological sardinops, a relative of sardines, and herring was nicknamed for the abundance), the genius of the Danube herring (tender, tasty and fatty, even for bread smear her).

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