[Sca-cooks] Question to the Group

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Gary Walker wrote:

> on 1/25/02 6:52 PM, Philip & Susan Troy at troy at asan.com wrote:
>
>
>>I'm also surprised to see no reference (in a quick scan, anyway) to
>>trout, which, for all I know, was introduced to English streams and
>>waters after this time period.
>>
>
> umm, isn't Scottish "salmon" what Amuricn's call "trout"?  and Salmon as
> known on the west coast of the US (I'm in Oregon) aren't known in Europe at
> all?


Not as far as I've ever heard. Scottish salmon are Atlantic salmon, the
same salmon available in much of Eastern North America's rivers and
streams. These are also found in much of north western Europe.

The salmon of the western coast of North America (sockeye, etc.), are
indeed unknown in Europe, or, rather, would be if most of the salmon
smoked in Scotland and various other "smoked salmon capitals" were not
in fact imported from the Pacific, which they are.

There also seem to be sufficient references to various trout (I believe
brown trout are originally European and were transplanted to North
America) in early post-period sources, such as Walton, as well as
various period sources, ranging from the book of Saint Alban to various
Greek scholarly works (3rd century C.E.?) which supply some of our first
written descriptions of fly-fishing or dappling. I'm just surprised not
to see more references to trout in the available medieval culinary
literature. At least not the English stuff.

Adamantius

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Phil & Susan Troy

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