Question about pickled northern

[flipper]

I am getting ready to pickle a northern. A previous recipe says if you freeze the fillets for 48 hours before pickling you will kill any parasites, particularly the tapeworm. In the latest Conservation Volunteer it says the meat must be cooked in order to kill the parasites. Can anyone shed some more light on this????

Thank-you

Flipper

[jonny_redhorse]

This is an article I came up with after a few minutes on google...many others of course......jonny

Caution: The Broad Fish Tapeworm

The broad fish tapeworm infection can be contracted by humans from eating raw or undercooked species of fish found in the Great Lakes area.

The larvae of the broad fish tapeworm pass through smaller fish until they lodge as hatched small worms in the flesh of large carnivorous species of fish, like northern pike, walleye pike, sand pike, burbot, and yellow perch. This worm, if eaten by humans in its infective stage, can attach to the small intestine and grow to lengths of 10 to 30 feet.

The infective worms are destroyed readily either by cooking or freezing. Two recent outbreaks of this tapeworm in Minnesota were related to eating uncooked pickled pike. Those who wish to prepare raw pickled fish should first freeze the fish at 0° F for 48 hours.

[flipper]

Thank-you,

Flipper

[almosthaddabite]

Yesterday I'm getting ready to pickle some fish and my wife shows me the article in the Volunteer. She says she's never eating pickled fish again . I'll be thawing some frozen crappies today. By the way crappies pickle better than Northers anyway.

[husker4u9899]

I was given this site by the Home Economics Dept at Iowa State University. This site should answer your questions on FOOD SAFETY

www.uga.edu\nchfp\

Food saftey, please error on the side of being safe..

[husker4u9899]

Not sure why the first part of the site was in blue, but you need to enter the entire site address as I posted, the site is maintained by the Univ. of Georgia

[Law Firm]

For those of you who pickle fish, what are the recipes that you use? Are they pretty standard, or do they differentiate quite a bit?

[BAIT956]

Most recipes are fairly similar.

Do a search of this site for a recipe from Coldone. I have used this one many times with excellent results.

I try to experiment every time I make it.