[Sca-cooks] Kippers and Toad-in-the-hole

[johnna holloway]

OED indicates that kipper comes from:
A name given to the male salmon (or sea trout) during the spawning season. (The
female is then called a shedder.)
dates back 1000 AD.
1533-4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 7 That no maner of persone or persones..frome the
feaste of the exaltation of the holy crosse to the feaste of Seynt martyn in
wynter..kyll or distroye any Salmons not in season called kepper Salmons.
1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 1 Any Salmons or Trouts, not being in Season, being
Kepper-Salmons or Kepper-Trouts, Shedder-Salmons or Shedder-Trouts.

Preparing a fish-- goes to the 1300's-- with some doubt being expressed--
A kippered fish (salmon, herring, etc.); now esp. a herring so cured: see kipper
v.
(It is doubtful whether the quots. from the Durham Acc. Rolls belong here; they
may relate to the fish in sense 1, without reference to any particular mode of
preparation.)

1326 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 15 In 11 Kypres emp., 3s. 4d.
1340 Durham Acc. Rolls 37 In 6 kypres emp. et 1 salmone salso, 2s. 2d.

Kippered as a verb seems to be 18th.

Johnnae llyn Lewis


"Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote: snipped
I'd be very curious, if someone has access to an OED, as to the

> origin of the name; it occurs to me that Norwegian klippfisk are also
> split that way. Adamantius