Mock Oysters

Description
Serves 1-2; kJ per portion 1200; preparation time 15 minutes; cooking time 10 minutes.

Ingredients

 * 1 Herring, soaked in cold water to extract salt and drained
 * 1 sweetbread, boiled and cut into 12 pieces
 * 1 egg, beaten
 * Breadcrumbs seasoned with salt and pepper
 * 12 oyster shells

Directions

 * 1) Mince the Herring finely and divide into 12 portions. Place each portion in an oyster shell.
 * 2) Dip each piece of sweetbread in the beaten egg and then coat with breadcrumbs.
 * 3) Place one on top of each portion of Herring in the oyster shells.
 * 4) Sprinkle more seasoned breadcrumbs over the filling in each shell and dab with butter.
 * 5) Bake in the over at 180 °C (350 °F) until the butter sizzles and the breadcrumbs are brown.
 * 6) Serve at once.