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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Kippers, bloaters, and bucklings
- Origin<!-- this section is linked to from [[Craster kipper]] -->
- Colouring
- Preparation
- Industry
- Related terms
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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A kipper is a whole herring (a small, oily fish) that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kipper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.