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lady-janine | 08:45 Tue 08th Jul 2014 | Food & Drink
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how would you cook a pair of kippers?

I know how I would usually cook them but have been asked to prepare them a different way and just wondered if this was a normal way for others that I had not heard of.

recipes please.
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If they're 'real' kippers...ie they still have the head and tail and were properly smoked, not just dyed...they're already 'cooked', by definition, so all you have to do is 'heat' them. Having worked in kippering yards in Scotland during every school/university holiday from the age of 14 to 24, I wouldn't do anything involving liquids. Grilling lightly is...
10:07 Tue 08th Jul 2014
I usually grill them. How have you been asked to do it?
i want to say set fire to the bed ..lol......grilling kippers is ok
If you enter kippers recipes on Google I am sure you will find what you are looking for.
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Usually I would poach them.
But maybe be shred them, add some veges, add some sort of sauce, cover them in mash, and bake it like a shepherds pie.
Just call it an "Anglers pie"
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boiling.
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poach? in what and with what lozzy? what does this do to the taste?
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I like mine the same way as my smoked haddock, in a baking tray with a *** of butter and cover with foil and bung-em in the oven for 20 mins.

or on the hob in milk.
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sorry I should have made it clear that are wanted for breakfast.
put in a jug head down and pour boiling water over them is another way .
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I have only ever grilled, fried or baked them. that's why i'm puzzled.
I likes Ratter's idea of cooking in milk. Not sure I'd boil in water. Sounds like all the taste would disappear.
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wouldn't poaching in water or milk destroy the texture?
For breakfast? in the oven.
I like them a little dryer for breakfast or if you like them moist do them in milk, lovely either way.
My preference; poach, definitely. They must be tender, grilling will make them hard.
If you don't have a poacher with a trivet, the simplest way is to place them on a dinner plate on a saucepan of boiling water (with *** of butter optional) and cover them with a second plate upside down.
We normally have them grilled, but the best kippers I've ever had were straight out of Robson's Smoke house at Craster.We sat in the beer garden of a local pub and eat them still warm from the smoke house washed down with a couple of pints of Castle Eden.
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The only time you might "boil" them is if they are pre-sealed boil-in-the-bag kippers?

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