Cullen Skink
This was an amazing tasting recipe. A request came from Paul via Twitter (@squashypigeon) to attempt Cullen Skink – a traditional Scottish soup recipe. I’d never heard of it before and the ingredients were cheap and minimal. The end result was surprisingly fantastic, extremely tasty and flavour packed.
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Here is how the name derives:
The name is partly (and indirectly) derived from Gaelic. The first element refers to the town of Cullen in Moray (a place name of Gaelic origin), however skink is a Scots word for a shin, knuckle or hough of beef which has developed the secondary meaning of a soup, especially one made from these. The word skink is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch schenke “shin, hough”,[1], also the root of the English word shank.
The recipe was good. I subbed in Talapia, a very mild and available fish here on the California coast.
Dennis