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Brathering (English: fried herring) is a simple German dish of fried marinated herring.In a common recipe green (i.e. fresh) herrings with the head and gut removed are either breaded or simply turned in flour then fried and finally pickled in a marinade of vinegar and briefly boiled water onion salt spices like pepper bay leaves and mustard seeds and a little sugar.The herring are served cold and well pervaded together with bread fried potatoes or jacket potatoes.