The pickling cooks the fish. No processing needed. I salt the fish for 24 hours and then run it thru about 6 cold water rinses, allowing the fish to soak a half hour during each rinse. This gets excess salt out. Then the fish gets a bath in white vinegar for 24 hours. When the fish goes in the white vinegar I make the brine for packing. Three cups of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of cider vinegar, 2 tbls of pickling spices. I heat/simmer this until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture is syrupy. Then it gets set aside to cool until the next day. One the third day I slice a couple of white onions into thin rings and mix with the fish as it comes out of the white vinegar soak. Then I pack jars with the fish/onions. I add 1 1/2 cups of sweet white wine to the syrup, mix well and then pour the syrup over the fish, cover the jars and toss in the fridge. Ready in three days.

In recent years I have cheated and do a 5 quart ice cream pail full of the pickled fish and just leave the pail on the top shelf of the fridge. Its usually not there very long.