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

[Darren Gasser]

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