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Recipe for Snotched Herring or Mackerel.

2-3 herring or mackerel per person.

This is arguably the best way of cooking herring or mackerel fresh from the sea. It is certainly the simplest. ‘Snotch’ is a Cornish term which means slashing the fish two or three times in the middle of both sides so the plump middle of the fish cooks as quickly as the thinner ends.