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A buckling is a form of hot-smoked
herring Herring are various species of forage fish, belonging to the Order (biology), order Clupeiformes. Herring often move in large Shoaling and schooling, schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate wate ...
similar to the
kipper A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak). In the United Kin ...
and the bloater. The head and guts are removed but the
roe Roe, ( ) or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooking, c ...
or
milt Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals. They reproduce by spraying this fluid which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs). It can also refer to the sperm sacs or testes that contain the semen. ...
remain. They may be eaten hot or cold.


Terminology

The name comes from the German word '' bückling'' or the Swedish ''böckling'', both words denoting a type of hot-smoked herring and is a reference to its bad smell reminiscent of the smell of a buck.


Bucklings, bloaters and kippers

All three are types of smoked herring. Bucklings are hot-smoked whole; bloaters are cold-smoked whole;
kippers A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak). In the United King ...
are split, gutted and then cold-smoked.


See also

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Fish preservation Fish preservation is the method of increasing the shelf life of fish and other fish products by applying the principles of different branches of science in order to keep the fish, after it has landed, in a condition wholesome and fit for human ...
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Herring as food Herring are forage fish in the wild, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. They are an important Fish as food, food for humans. Herring often move in large Shoaling and schooling, schools around fishing banks and near the coast. The most abu ...
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List of dried foods This is a list of dried foods. Food drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which inhibits the growth of bacteria and has been practiced worldwide since ancient times to preserve food. Where or when d ...
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List of smoked foods This is a list of smoked foods. Smoking (cooking), Smoking is the process of seasoning, flavoring, cooking, or food preservation, preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Foods have been smoke ...
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Red herring A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion. A red herring may be used intentiona ...
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Smoked fish Smoked fish is fish that has been cured by smoking. Foods have been smoked by humans throughout history. Originally this was done as a preservative. In more recent times, fish is readily preserved by refrigeration and freezing and the smoking o ...
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Solomon Gundy Solomon Gundy is a spicy Jamaican pickled (salted) fish pâté, usually served with crackers as an appetizer or hors d’oeuvre. Etymology ''Solomon Gundy'' may have been derived from the British word "''salmagundi''", used to refer to a s ...


References


External links


Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring: Buckling
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