[Sca-cooks] Dried fish question

[Craig Jones]

Perhaps something like Bombay Duck?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_duck
Probably not the same fish, but the same concept?  I am 
wild-arse-guessing tho...

Drake.
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> 1. Does anyone have any information on what tirrikh were like, hence 
> what varieties of fish would be closest? Perry, in an old 
> correspondence I had with him, mentioned that salted fish from the 
> relevant lake are still sold in Istanbul under the name "kefal," which 
> is the name of the grey mullet. He doesn't know if what are now sold 
> are the same as what were called tirikh, and the grey mullet is a salt 
> water fish, but it at least suggests the possibility of looking for a 
> fresh water fish in some way similar to the mullet. Of course, even if 
> I did that, I would still have the problem of figuring out what kind 
> of fish are in the packages of dried fish in the Chinese grocery store.
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