[Sca-cooks] Batter frying--the origin of fish and chips?

[Johnna Holloway]

Quickly checking Davidson's entry on Fish and Chips
in the Oxford Companion, he mentions that Claudia Roden
in 1996 (The Book of Jewish Food)  ties the Jewish
tradition of frying fish in batter and eating them cold as
a possible source.  I suppose Roden is the next place to look.
It would have been a logical place for Professor Panikos Panayi of 
Leicester's De Montfort University
as mentioned in the article to have looked.

Johnnae