[Sca-cooks] Kippers and Toad-in-the-hole
Darren Gasser
kaos at earthlink.net
Thu May 15 10:04:03 PDT 2003
johnna holloway wrote:
> 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.)
Other sources indicate that the term originated as a color description, not
a culinary one. From The American Heritage, for example:
"Middle English kipre, from Old English cypera, spawning male salmon,
probably from cyperen, of copper, from coper, copper (because of the fish's
color during the spawning season)."
-Lorenz
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