Rollmops

As a pickled herring is called a pickled in vinegar and salt herring, served rolled up. The head, fins (except the dorsal fin ), bones and offal liberated herring to be filed 35 days in a brine of vinegar and salt as acidic marinade; marinated herring before rolling is called sour rag. The inside of the rolled fish is usually filled with a piece of acidic or gherkin and sometimes onions. Alternatively, cole slaw or sauerkraut are used. To prepare a roasting or Räucherrollmopses the fillets are fried or smoked before loading the herring.

Here, the herring is peppered with two small pointed wooden stick to the cucumber to avoid premature unrolling during transport and to achieve a better pulling the Rollmopses in Würzmarinade in which he is also transported and traded. The wooden sticks are removed before consumption.

Rollmöpse are not usually eaten with cutlery, but stuck with one of the open ( cucumber ) side first, into the mouth. He is rarely unrolls. Because of its compact size, it is rolled eaten a few bites. He is considered a traditional part of the hangover breakfast.

Production

Fork Rollmöpse are made from herring fillets without skin and often offered commercially canned. The herring is a boneless and fins (except the dorsal fin ) liberated herring, which is related more to the back, giving a per fillet herring. In contrast, a herring fillet is a filleted and skinned, freed from all fin herring, with two fillets per herring. The same terms shall apply mutatis mutandis in the mackerel.

Origin

Has its origin the food in the first half of the 19th century, when the shape of the dog breed pug associated in the Biedermeier period design and appearance of the Rollmopses.

Pickled herring is considered specialty cuisine of Berlin and to have originated in Berlin, as well as the term. For general spread of Rollmopses in the German kitchen was a major factor in the nascent long-distance railway network, which made ​​it possible to transport of North Sea and Baltic Sea in wooden barrels pickled fish inland. Rollmöpse were traditionally contents of the so-called hunger Towers in Old Berlin pubs.

Other meanings

• When Skat referred woolen head, pickled herring or sore thumb one sheet with two boys and two cards of each color.
• With the food, the term pickled herring has been adopted by numerous other cultures from the Germans, for example, from Spain, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Norway and all English speaking countries where the Gabelbissen but is already partially cooked on regionally altered manner.