This works wel with almost any fish....redhorse suckers are great....also 4-6 pound Northern Pike and any other fish you want.

1 Aquire two pounds of fish fillets and cut to strips roughly 3/4" X 1.5" Soak them in a mixture of eight cups vinegar and 1 1/3 cup salt.....(no iodine)..Use a one gallon container and refrigerate them five full days shaking every day.

2 Boil for five minutes, a mixture of eight cups vinegar (1/2 of which are apple cider vinegar) seven cups sugar, three tablespons pickling spice, 1/3 cup red cooking wine and put the mixture aside and then in the refrigerator until it's farly cold. Add two thinly sliced medium sweet onions to this mixture.

3. Drain the container of vinegar, salt, and fish retaining the fish only....rinse in cold water, and add the fish to the new mixture of vinegar, sugar, spice and cooking wine and refrigerate for three days!

Make a cream sause of 1 cup mayonnaise, one cup sour cream, three tablespoons applecider vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon liquid smoke (don't over do it),1 teaspoon dill seed, 1 teaspoon dill weed, 1 tablespoon worchestershire sause 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard 2 tablespoon grape seed oil and 3 tablespoons lemon juice.

Mix well

4 Drain the fish, onion, vinegar, sugar, pickling spice, and cooking wine retaining the fish and onion and rinse them in cold water.....then add that to the cream sauce.

If you don't like pickled fish, you won't like this either.....but for those of us with some Norwegian in them, this is the pinnacle...the end....the one to ask for.

ya shore ya betchya!

A bit of caution for those of us with diabetes.....this fish may be extremely high in carbohydrates

Dog: Does eating this make you want to tell Sven and Ole jokes, or is that only when you use herring with this recipe?

I was raised on that good fish but I never had any desire to tell dumb jokes !
Ancient Vikings had a big business throughout Europe selling salted dried cod and pickled herring.
Cod is almost all protein and salt can be removed easily.
Herring is a fatty fish with all those omega things !

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Dog: Does eating this make you want to tell Sven and Ole jokes, or is that only when you use herring with this recipe?

I can't tell Sven and Ole jokes here as this is a family forum....but did you hear the one bout Toivo the finlander?...oopps....I can't tell that one either.

Looks like a lot of work.
Glad u enjoy.

This does look good, indeed - my Swedish blood tells me I should try this, and I know a great place to get some northern pike.

I don't have any diabetes issues, but my wife does. With that in mind, do you think a person could either cut the sugar in half, or use Splenda? Or would that throw everything off, in your opinion?

personally, I wouldn't use splenda for anything.

The thing with us diabetics is simply portion control.....I have only made it the way it is stated here. Be your own judge.