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==Origin==
==Origin==
The exact origin of kippers is unknown, though fish have been slit, gutted and smoked since [[time immemorial]].<ref>The practice of smoking salmon for preservation was seen by Lewis and Clark among American Indians of the Columbia River region.</ref> According to [[Mark Kurlansky]], "Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident—usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".<ref>Mark Kurlansky, 2002. ''Salt: A World History'', ISBN 0-8027-1373-4</ref> For instance [[Thomas Nashe]] wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from [[Lothingland]] in the [[Great Yarmouth (borough)|Great Yarmouth area]] who discovered smoking herring by accident.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PzsHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA569&lpg=RA4-PA569&dq=%22fiering+and+smoking%22&source=web&ots=dVab8FAwjR&sig=ghk3bQS_khT8L-NPyoeN8t0DO3g&hl=en "Curing of Herrings—From the Works of Thomas Nash, 1599"], ''The Every-day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communication, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III.'', ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 569-70. Retrieved on 10 June 2008</ref> Another story of the accidental invention of kipper is set in 1843, with John Woodger of [[Seahouses]] in [[Northumberland]], when fish for processing was left overnight in a room with a smoking stove. These stories and others are known to be apocryphal because the word "kipper" long predates this. Smoking and salting of fish—in particular of spawning salmon and herring which are caught in large numbers in a short time and can be made suitable for edible storage by this practice predates 19th century Britain and indeed written history, probably going back as long as humans have been using salt to preserve food.
The exact origin of kippers is unknown, though fish have been slit, gutted and smoked since [[time immemorial]].<ref>The practice of smoking salmon for preservation was seen by Lewis and Clark among American Indians of the Columbia River region.</ref> According to [[Mark Kurlansky]], "Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident—usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".<ref>Mark Kurlansky, 2002. ''Salt: A World History'', ISBN 0-8027-1373-4</ref> For instance [[Thomas Nashe]] wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from [[Lothingland]] in the [[Great Yarmouth (borough)|Great Yarmouth area]] who discovered smoking herring by accident.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PzsHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA569&lpg=RA4-PA569&dq=%22fiering+and+smoking%22&source=web&ots=dVab8FAwjR&sig=ghk3bQS_khT8L-NPyoeN8t0DO3g&hl=en "Curing of Herrings—From the Works of Thomas Nash, 1599"], ''The Every-day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communication, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III.'', ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 569-70. Retrieved on 10 June 2008</ref>


==Preparation==
==Preparation==
[[File:Kippers at Burton Bradstock.jpg|right|thumb|265px|Kippers for breakfast in England.]]
[[File:Kippers at Burton Bradstock.jpg|right|thumb|265px|Kippers for breakfast in England.]]


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In the United Kingdom, kippers are often served for breakfast<ref>{{cite news|last=Fearnley-Whittingstall|first=Hugh|title=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's herring recipes|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/23/herring-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall|accessdate=2012-05-06|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>.
"Cold smoked" fish, that have not been salted for preservation, need to be cooked before being eaten safely (they can be boiled, fried, grilled, [[jugged]] or roasted, for instance). "Kipper snacks," (see below) are precooked and may be eaten without further preparation.

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In the United Kingdom, kippers are often served for breakfast<ref>{{cite news|last=Fearnley-Whittingstall|first=Hugh|title=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's herring recipes|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/23/herring-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall|accessdate=2012-05-06|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>, tea or dinner. In the United States, where kippers are less commonly eaten than in the UK, they are almost always sold as either canned "kipper snacks" or in jars found in the refrigerated foods section.

In Haiti, kipper is eaten with scrambled eggs for breakfast or mixed with pasta or rice.


==Kippers in the British Isles==
==Kippers in the British Isles==
Kippers are produced in the [[Isle of Man]] and exported around the world.<ref name = "BBC-1">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/content/articles/2005/10/07/kippers_feature.shtml | title = Isle of Man | publisher = [[BBC]] | accessdate = 9 May 2012}}</ref> Thousands are produced annually in the town of [[Peel, Isle of Man|Peel]], where two kipper houses, Moore's Kipper Yard (founded 1882)<ref name = "BBC-1" /> and Devereau and Son (founded 1884),<ref name = "BBC-1" /> smoke and export [[herring]].
Kippers are produced in the [[Isle of Man]] and exported around the world.<ref name = "BBC-1">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/content/articles/2005/10/07/kippers_feature.shtml | title = Isle of Man | publisher = [[BBC]] | accessdate = 9 May 2012}}</ref> Thousands are produced annually in the town of [[Peel, Isle of Man|Peel]], where two kipper houses, Moore's Kipper Yard (founded 1882)<ref name = "BBC-1" /> and Devereau and Son (founded 1884),<ref name = "BBC-1" /> smoke and export [[herring]].


[[Mallaig]], once the busiest herring port in Europe,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mallaigheritage.org.uk/exhibit/mallaig.htm|title=Mallaig and its story|publisher=Mallaig Heritage Centre|accessdate=9 January 2010}}</ref> is famous for its traditionally smoked kippers, as well as [[Stornoway]] kippers and [[Loch Fyne]] kippers. The harbour village of [[Craster]] in [[Northumberland]] is also famed for its kippers, where they are prepared in a smokehouse, sold in the local shop and exported around the world.
[[Mallaig]], once the busiest herring port in Europe,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mallaigheritage.org.uk/exhibit/mallaig.htm|title=Mallaig and its story|publisher=Mallaig Heritage Centre|accessdate=9 January 2010}}</ref>.

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==Related terms==
==Related terms==
[[File:Red herring.jpg|thumb|left|"''Red herring''": Cold smoked herring (Scottish kippers), brined so that their flesh achieves a reddish colour.]]
[[File:Red herring.jpg|thumb|left|"''Red herring''": Cold smoked herring (Scottish kippers), brined so that their flesh achieves a reddish colour.]]

The [[Manx language|Manx]] word for kipper is {{lang|gv|''skeddan jiarg''}} which literally translates as ''red herring''. Compare to Irish ''scadán dearg''.


A kipper is also sometimes referred to as a "red herring", although particularly strong curing is required to produce a truly red kipper.<ref>{{cite web | author=[[Michael Quinion|Quinion, Michael]]| year=2002| title=The Lure of the Red Herring | work=WorldWideWords | url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/herring.htm | accessdate=21 April 2007}}</ref>
A kipper is also sometimes referred to as a "red herring", although particularly strong curing is required to produce a truly red kipper.<ref>{{cite web | author=[[Michael Quinion|Quinion, Michael]]| year=2002| title=The Lure of the Red Herring | work=WorldWideWords | url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/herring.htm | accessdate=21 April 2007}}</ref>
This term can be dated to the late Middle Ages as quoted here c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40) 27: "He eteþ no ffyssh But heryng red." [[Samuel Pepys]] used it in his diary entry of 28 February 1660 "Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before."<ref>{{cite web | author=[[Samuel Pepys|Pepys Samuel]]| year=1893| title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. | work=Samuel Pepys' Diary | url=http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/02/28/index.php | accessdate=21 February 2006}}</ref>
This term can be dated to the late Middle Ages as quoted here c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40) 27: "He eteþ no ffyssh But heryng red." [[Samuel Pepys]] used it in his diary entry of 28 February 1660 "Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before."<ref>{{cite web | author=[[Samuel Pepys|Pepys Samuel]]| year=1893| title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. | work=Samuel Pepys' Diary | url=http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/02/28/index.php | accessdate=21 February 2006}}</ref>
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''Kipper time'' is the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden in Great Britain, originally the period 3 May to 6 January, in the [[River Thames]] by an [[Act of Parliament]].

''Kipper season'' refers (particularly among fairground workers, market workers, taxi drivers and the like) to any lean period in trade, particularly the first three or four months of the year; possibly a reference to the above usage, or to the need to live frugally during such a period, by (for instance) living on kippers.

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The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy also use the term 'kippers' as a slang for members of the Royal Navy.


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 04:03, 27 July 2012

This article is about the fish. For other uses, see Kipper (disambiguation).
Kippered "split" herring

A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish,[1] that has been split from tail to head, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold smoked.

In the United Kingdom, in Japan, and in some North American regions they are often eaten for breakfast. In the UK, kippers, along with other preserved fish such as the bloater and buckling, were also once commonly enjoyed as a high tea or supper treat; most popularly with inland and urban working-class populations before World War II.

Terminology

Look up kipper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The English philologist and ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English kippian, to spawn. The origin of the word has various parallels, such as Icelandic kippa which means "to pull, snatch" and the German word kippen which means "to tilt, to incline". Similarly, the English kipe denotes a basket used to catch fish. Another theory traces the word kipper to the kip, or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season.

As a verb, "to kipper" (see kippering) means to preserve by rubbing with salt or other spices before drying in the open air or in smoke. It is also used in slang to mean being immersed in a room filled with cigarette or other tobacco smoke.

Origin

The exact origin of kippers is unknown, though fish have been slit, gutted and smoked since time immemorial.[2] According to Mark Kurlansky, "Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident—usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".[3] For instance Thomas Nashe wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from Lothingland in the Great Yarmouth area who discovered smoking herring by accident.[4]

Preparation

Kippers for breakfast in England.

In the United Kingdom, kippers are often served for breakfast[5].

Kippers in the British Isles

Kippers are produced in the Isle of Man and exported around the world.[6] Thousands are produced annually in the town of Peel, where two kipper houses, Moore's Kipper Yard (founded 1882)[6] and Devereau and Son (founded 1884),[6] smoke and export herring.

Mallaig, once the busiest herring port in Europe,[7].

"Red herring": Cold smoked herring (Scottish kippers), brined so that their flesh achieves a reddish colour.

A kipper is also sometimes referred to as a "red herring", although particularly strong curing is required to produce a truly red kipper.[8] This term can be dated to the late Middle Ages as quoted here c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40) 27: "He eteþ no ffyssh But heryng red." Samuel Pepys used it in his diary entry of 28 February 1660 "Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before."[9]


See also

References

  1. ^ "What's an oily fish?". Food Standards Agency. 24 June 2004.
  2. ^ The practice of smoking salmon for preservation was seen by Lewis and Clark among American Indians of the Columbia River region.
  3. ^ Mark Kurlansky, 2002. Salt: A World History, ISBN 0-8027-1373-4
  4. ^ "Curing of Herrings—From the Works of Thomas Nash, 1599", The Every-day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communication, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion. Vol III., ed. William Hone, (London: 1838) p 569-70. Retrieved on 10 June 2008
  5. ^ Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh. "Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's herring recipes". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Isle of Man". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Mallaig and its story". Mallaig Heritage Centre. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  8. ^ Quinion, Michael (2002). "The Lure of the Red Herring". WorldWideWords. Retrieved 21 April 2007.
  9. ^ Pepys Samuel (1893). "The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S." Samuel Pepys' Diary. Retrieved 21 February 2006.


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