Cullen Skink

[Campervanannie]

Ok so I am making it for tea and I know the basic recipe and ingredients of smoked cod/haddock, onions, potatoes, butter, and milk, cream or both but to the Scots out there are there any secret ingredients that you or your family put in to give it just that bit extra flavour, I know there must be because everytime I eat it in Scottish pubs it never tastes the same so come on give up your secrets.??

 

[2cv]

Cullen skink only uses smoked haddock, undyed preferably, not cod.

 

[Campervanannie]

Cullen skink only uses smoked haddock, undyed preferably, not cod.

I actually put half and half in mine just because I love both fish lol I can rename mine fish soup?

 

[Full Member]

Ok so I am making it for tea and I know the basic recipe and ingredients of smoked cod/haddock, onions, potatoes, butter, and milk, cream or both but to the Scots out there are there any secret ingredients that you or your family put in to give it just that bit extra flavour, I know there must be because everytime I eat it in Scottish pubs it never tastes the same so come on give up your secrets.??

I have it on very good authority that when a Scot is making Cullen Skink they take great care not to include fish or human fingers.
I hope this helps, Annie

Colin .

 

[wildebus]

My Secret as a Scottish Resident …. buy a can of Baxters from Lidl

 

[Topmast]

My Secret as a Scottish Resident …. buy a can of Baxters from Lidl

That is totally cheating you should be ashamed.

 

[Campervanannie]

Well it was fabulous I did add a smidge of English mustard and my cream split a little but it tasted fabulous

 

[Wully]

mouths watering thinking about it visited Cullen last year had it in a pub don’t know if it’s because I was eating it in Cullen with a big crusty ootsider but it seemed to taste better. Proper food

 

[wildebus]

I am not a great seafood fan, however I always made a point of having a big bowl of Seafood Chowder at 'Durty Nellie's' outside Limerick everytime I went over to Ireland to go to the Factory.
Highly recommended (although the last time was twenty years ago so may have changed!)

 

[wildebus]

(Just thought I would share a little aside on one trip.... Getting a taxi back to Shannon, the taxi driver said "so, did you go to Ted's [local nightclub]?"
"No" I say.
"Ah, that's a shame", he says, "If ye can't score in Teds, ye dead already" )

(A colleague told me one time as soon as he opened his wallet and two girls saw a credit card in it, a big fight kicked off to see which one would try and get off with him )