[Sca-cooks] Milt or Soft Roe

Elise Fleming alyskatharine at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 13:00:18 PDT 2015


Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 16:00:42 +0200
From: Susan Lord <lordhunt at gmail.com>

 >Is milt, soft roe, male genitalia of fish containing sperm used as 
 >food available today? It was sold fresh in 15 C. and consumed as a 
 >delicacy. This is the first I have heard about it.

Milt is not the male genitalia of fish. It is the seminal fluid FROM the 
genitalia, not the genitalia itself. The fluid contains the sperm.

One source for purchasing seems to be 
http://www.weiku.com/Agriculture/buy-Salmon-Milt.html . I don't know if 
this would be considered food-edible.

Alys K.


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