Ingredients. - Six herrings. Thirty pepper-corns. One blade of mace. One shallot. One bay-leaf. One gill of vinegar. Salt.

Time required, about six hours.

To Bake Fish (such as herrings or mackerel) in Vinegar :

1. Wash the fish and clean them thoroughly in cold water.

2. Put the fish on a board and cut them into thick pieces.

3. Lay these pieces close together in a stone jar, with thirty pepper-corns and half a teaspoonful of salt.

4. Add one blade of mace and a bay-leaf.

5. Take one shallot, peel it, and add it, or part of it (according to taste), to the fish.

6. Pour in one gill of vinegar, and tie a piece of brown paper tightly over the top of the jar with a piece of string.

7. Put the jar into a very slow oven, to bake for six hours; or it may stand in a baker's oven all night.

N. B. - The fish is to be eaten cold.