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Aberdeen smokie

Plural: Aberdeen smokies

Language: English

Description: A pale bronze haddock lightly smoked over peat, so it will only keep for a day or two. To smoke haddock, it is first gutted, cleaned and split before being brined and then hung up to drain. It is then smoked until it develops a straw colour. They darken after they process has been completed. Best cold with a squeeze of lemon and brown bread (US: wheat bread).


Aberdeen smokie
Arbroath smokies at the lovely Borough Market

Latin: Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ethnicity: Scottish
Most frequent country: Scotland

See foods and dishes: Finnan haddies

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