/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Post something interesting about a dish, cooking method, or history of, or whatever about food from where you come from - country, region, even your cultural background or family.

I’ll start.

These are kippers. Some kind of smoked mackerel I think. Anyway, these are traditional to the North East of England. One of our most ancient methods of cooking (even known to the Vikings who are recorded as liking these when they came here) is called ‘jugging’ which is how these are traditionally cooked even now. My Northumbrian grandmother taught me it:

Take a long jug, pour in about a finger’s measure worth of vinegar, then add about two fingers of heavy cream, then immediately top up the whole jug with boiling water, insert your kipper into the jug and wait 5 minutes. This cooks off the last of the smoking, heats it up, and the vinegar and cream brings out all its rich, smoky flavour. Wala kippers as eaten by England’s greatest Englishman.

Pic related. The most based way to enjoy kippers is for breakfast with a poached egg and a lemon butter sauce. Alternatively, just with a squeeze of lemon on buttered brown bread which is traditional to Northumberland.

Now you go.