finnan haddock
finnan haddie

"You said something about finnan haddock, but you wouldn't like it in the bedroom.

True finnan haddock country is farther north.

Surely you know about finnan haddock.

225g/8oz Finnan haddock fillets

Its ingredients are simple yet simply superb: the finest locally smoked Finnan haddock, the best Buchan tatties, plus onions and cream.

Indeed Jane Grigson in her Fish Cookery said that unless you can get Finnan haddock, the dish is not worth making.

Moray Firth haddock, we were told, is less likely to be cured with a vegetable dye, as is often the case with finnan haddock from farther south.

As with single-malt whisky and Drambuie, Scotland's famed liqueur, the main characteristic of cullen skink is its smokiness, which comes from its basic ingredient, finnan haddock.

Aberdeen, associated today with North Sea oil and oil-related industries, nevertheless remains an important fishing port and a major center for the landing and sale of finnan haddock.

Haddock is also delicious smoked: in Scotland, Finnan haddock was traditionally smoked over peat; while Arbroath smokies are whole smoked haddock.

If all this sounds heavy (and much of it is), be reminded that in addition to the delicate grilled Dover sole and the poached finnan haddock, game is practically fat free.

Some recipes specify a finnan haddock caught in the Moray Firth for cullen skink and, indeed, the best of the soups we sampled was at an inn on the Firth.

Beds, with smoked fish for breakfast Hotels, inns and guesthouses in Scotland usually include breakfast with the cost of the room, and most serve smoked finnan haddock as a breakfast dish.

At the oyster bar you can sample the whole range, or the day's hot dishes, such as smoked Finnan haddock in milk or salmon and cucumber sauce, which come - again, this is Scotland - with good potatoes.

Walking back from the Aberdeen docks to our hotel in a crisp North Sea wind, my companion and I made the obvious choice from among the cooked breakfast dishes: grilled finnan haddock, served with poached eggs.

Finnan haddie, also known as Finnan haddock and Finnan or Findrum speldings, is cold smoked haddock, representative of a regional method of smoking with green wood and peat in north-east Scotland.

Undyed smoked haddock - best of all the prized Finnan haddock from Findon nr Aberdeen - is always specified because the vile yellow fish found in supermarkets is neither haddock nor is it smoked - it is still raw and has been chemically treated to give a smoky flavour.

Cover the finnan haddie with water and simmer for 6 to 8 minutes.

Q. Why is it increasingly difficult to find real finnan haddie?

That's her way of expressing how she feels about Finnan haddie!!

Finnan haddie is often served poached in milk for breakfast.

The second is about the finnan haddie.

Finnan haddie is smoked fish, and this is one of many innuendoes which appear throughout the song.

EVEN people familiar with the name finnan haddie often have only the vaguest idea of what it is.

It's cold enough, though, so that anyone who takes a prebreakfast dip deserves the finest of finnan haddie afterward.

Herring and haddock (finnan haddie) are commonly smoked.

"Like finnan haddie," Chris said.

And, incidentally, we're having finnan haddie today at my request, and if anyone here doesn't like it, he can negotiate with Henry for substitutes.

Fine Finnan Haddie?

My mother used to make Finnan Haddie in a sort of cream sauce and serve it on buttered toast or over mashed potatoes.

An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock.

Other smoked fish products from the UK include Finnan Haddie and Bloater.

Finnan haddie (Findon or Findhorn)

Although known and admired in Scotland for a long time, Finnan haddie became a popular food item in London only in the 1830s.

Findon, Aberdeenshire, known as Finnan, home of the Finnan haddie, a smoked fish

Ordering: one crab salad - make that two - two crab salads, two sardines and a finnan haddie on the fly."

Finnan haddie is available primarily during the fall and winter at some seafood markets, including Citarella's two Manhattan stores, where the smoked fillets are $13.95 a pound.

She ordered langoustine and Brady chose the Finnan haddie, and the mussels for her silent PA. '

Finnan haddie is also often served poached in milk for breakfast and is an important part of traditional kedgeree and the Arnold Bennett omelet.

She was toying with warm baking-powder biscuits, creamed finnan haddie, and a London prostitute who went by the stage name Betsy Port-Smithe.

New York's most untraditional rillettes may also be its best: the salt cod and finnan haddie rillettes at Fresh in TriBeCa.

An enormous lobster pot pie ($25) has lots of corn, sparse chunks of lobster, a few smoky bites of finnan haddie and a cracker-crumb crust.