white sauce for pickled fish??

[merganser]

Anyone have a recipe for the white sauce you sometimes find pickled herring in at the salad bars. I see all of the pickled fish recipes but I haven't found the white sauce. Thanks in advance!! I used crappie and sunny fillets for my first pickling attempt and they turned out awesome.

[Wookiee]

It's usually drained pickled fish mixed with sour cream or heavy cream and 1/2 tsp. sugar and 1/2 tsp salt. At least that is what I do and it's very good. The best pickled fish are the crappies you catch in summer time water. I will not fry crappies I catch during the summer just way too mushy.

[Wookiee]

I will get you a more specific recipe when I get home tonight.

[merganser]

Okay, thank you. I pretty much release everything I catch except for a meal once in a while. Not any more!!! These pickling recipes sure are delicious. When you use pannies, do you cut the fillets into smaller pieces or just leave them whole like I did with my first batch. I suppose it depends on the size of the fish you are catching. I could see where some of the smaller perch fillets cut in half would work pretty good.

[Wookiee]

I usually do bite size pieces but with panfish depends on how thick the meat is. The only panfish I pickle are crappies in the summer when I am lucky enough to stumble on to some. Wait til you get some pike in the 2 to 3 pound class they are the best pickling fish in my opinion. Hammer handles are picklers and they help the pike and overall fish population of the lake by weeding out all that competition for food.

[Wookiee]

The White sauce very simple very easy.

1 cup sour cream to 1 tablespoon sugar. Depends on how big your jar of fish is? Drain brine off the fish and mix with the previous mixture to coat make as much in that ratio as you need to cream it. Hope this helps and it sure is good. When you get a chance try pickling up some salmon and mixing it with the cream sauce delicious!

[merganser]

Sour cream and sugar.... doesn't sound too difiicult!! Thanks, I will give that a try. Have a great day!