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A buckling is a form of hot-smoked
herring Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...
similar to the kipper and the bloater. The head and guts are removed but the roe or milt remain. They may be eaten hot or cold.


Origin

The word may come from the German '' Bückling'' or the Swedish ''böckling'', both words denoting a hot-smoked variety of the kipper.


Bucklings, bloaters and kippers

All three are types of smoked herring. Buckling is hot-smoked whole; bloaters are cold-smoked whole; kippers are split and gutted, and then cold-smoked.


See also

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List of smoked foods This is a list of smoked foods. Smoking is the process of flavoring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Foods have been smoked by humans throughout history. Meats and fish a ...


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