kipper

Salted, smoked herring

A kipper is a herring that has been split, salted, and cold-smoked—a traditional British breakfast food.

The process gives the fish a distinctive golden-brown color and rich, smoky flavor.

To kipper is to cure fish this way.

British slang uses kipper for various things resembling the flat, preserved fish: He slept like a kipper.

smoked

herring

Small silvery Atlantic fish

oak · aroma · flavor · golden · filleted · split · gutted · smokie · buckling · bloater

breakfast

eggs

Reproductive cells in shells

  • toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
  • teaSteeped leaf beverage
  • porridgeBoiled grain dish

kedgeree · oatmeal · marmalade · morning · protein · savory · fry-up · grilled · poached · scrambled

culinary

grilled

Cooked on metal bars

pate · fishcakes · kedgeree · butter · lemon · parsley · bones · filleting · skinning · flaking

herring

Atlantic

Ocean bordering Europe

fishery · catch · seasonal · spawning · migration · Scottish · Manx · Norwegian · sustainable · stock

British

Whitby

North Yorkshire coastal town

coastal · heritage · regional · speciality · seaside · Victorian · Edwardian · nostalgic · working-class · rationing

Categories
Opposites
preservation method

kipperfresh fish

Recently caught seafood

fresh catch · raw fish · wet fish · sashimi

fish preparation state

kipperwhole fish

Unbutchered aquatic creature

cooking/preparation method

kippersteamed fish

Seafood cooked by vapor

fried fish · baked fish

Phrases
Family

kippers, kippered, kippering

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G