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kippered herring - salted and smoked herring

herring - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

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I remember my father on Saturday mornings, after playing tennis with some fishermen, sitting on the sun-splashed deck we added to the cottage, enjoying a beer and leathery brown kippered herring from a smokehouse in Seal Cove, the kind of cured fish that used to be packed in wooden boxes and shipped to the Caribbean and South America, the meat as hard and unforgiving as jerky.

The House Built of Herring

If the air of Flanders has put a keener edge than usual on his appetite he can then turn to tinned mutton cutlets or tinned stewed kidneys, or tinned kippered herrings, or tinned fresh herrings, and can fill himself to repletion with the addition of such tinned fruits as apricots, peaches, pears, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple rings and fruit salad.

War Diary

Kippers (full name, kippered herrings) are smoked after they have been split, gutted and dried.

Rise and shine! We're having fish for breakfast

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