
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 ...
References
External links
Herring page
Fish processing
Food preservation
Oily fish
Smoked fish
Herring dishes
British seafood dishes
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