The fir eats / Julia Hartbeck
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Cullen skink soup recipe traditional scottish recipe
Cullen skink one of the most famous dishes of Scotland is a hearty soup traditionally made with smoked haddock. The name of this soup comes from Cullen a small town in the North East of Scotland. Skink is the Scottish term for a knuckle shin or hock of beef so most soups made from these parts were called skink. When people in Northern Scotland could not find leftover beef due to economic problems but had plenty of fish to cook with and smoked haddock was everywhere meat stews were transformed into fish based soups but the name skink stuck.
In this version of the famous recipe mashed potatoes add thickness and creaminess while in other versions the potatoes are added in chunks. The best potatoes for our skink would be waxier varieties rather than the potatoes traditionally used for mashing.
This recipe for Cullen skink is also known in other parts of Britain as smoked haddock chowder and both dishes are very similar. This recipe is also a gluten free dish as the only binding agent used is potatoes.
