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Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook
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- Quiller
- Pubblicato:
- Oct 31, 2008
- ISBN:
- 9781846891571
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Rosie has created this wonderful cookbook, designed to encourage everyone who loves smoked fish to be more adventurous. There's an introduction about the art of smoking and also smoking the Inverawe way, all with beautiful imagery. --Aga Living
The Inverawe Smokehouse in Argyll is one of Britains best known producers of smoked salmon and trout. Among those who enjoy smoked fish, their products are legendary. Now Rosie Campbell-Preston who runs Inverawe with her husband Robert has produced a book of recipes based on more than 30 years experience in the fish smoking business. The book explains the art of fish smoking and then reveals the secrets of such splendid recipes as smoked salmon and halibut terrine, smoked salmon and whisky soup, roast smoked salmon and mango and, at last but by no means least, smoked eel, beetroot, potato and pickled dill cucumber salad. --Land & Business
The Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook is a useful collection of recipes, from an escabeche of kippers to smoked eel, chorizo and potato frittata and traditional cullen skink soup, by the smokehouse owner, Rosie Campbell-Preston --The Observer Food Monthly
Informazioni sul libro
Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook
Descrizione
Rosie has created this wonderful cookbook, designed to encourage everyone who loves smoked fish to be more adventurous. There's an introduction about the art of smoking and also smoking the Inverawe way, all with beautiful imagery. --Aga Living
The Inverawe Smokehouse in Argyll is one of Britains best known producers of smoked salmon and trout. Among those who enjoy smoked fish, their products are legendary. Now Rosie Campbell-Preston who runs Inverawe with her husband Robert has produced a book of recipes based on more than 30 years experience in the fish smoking business. The book explains the art of fish smoking and then reveals the secrets of such splendid recipes as smoked salmon and halibut terrine, smoked salmon and whisky soup, roast smoked salmon and mango and, at last but by no means least, smoked eel, beetroot, potato and pickled dill cucumber salad. --Land & Business
The Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook is a useful collection of recipes, from an escabeche of kippers to smoked eel, chorizo and potato frittata and traditional cullen skink soup, by the smokehouse owner, Rosie Campbell-Preston --The Observer Food Monthly
- Editore:
- Quiller
- Pubblicato:
- Oct 31, 2008
- ISBN:
- 9781846891571
- Formato:
- Libro
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Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook - Rosie Campbell-Preston
introduction
The Inverawe Smoked Fish Cookbook is an exciting collection of all my favourite recipes that I have created over the years. The great adventure started all those years ago when I married Robert and found myself heading north to Argyll to be the wife of a fish farmer! It was quite a culture shock compared to my sheltered life in Windsor, but I instantly loved the wild remoteness of the West Coast.
It is said that certain defining events change one’s life – and that certainly happened to us! At the end of 1977 there was a terrible gale and we could only stand and watch as the waves destroyed our fish farm. It was a heart-breaking time, but at that moment Robert made up his mind to have his business on land, and what better way than to start a Smokehouse! From then on it was sheer determination and hard work to rebuild the fish farm and create the smokery. I still remember the excitement when Robert appeared in the kitchen with the first side of smoked Loch Etive Trout – it was fantastic, I would never have to make another starter! Little did I know that this was the beginning of my business life. Up until then, I had been bringing up our four lovely children, running the house and helping on the fish farm – grading or gutting the occasional ton of fish. With Robert proving to be a complete natural at smoking fish, I found myself running the mail-order business. It was fun right from the start and I loved creating new and exciting recipes and serving suggestions for the catalogues.
The recipes are simple and honest. Many have been created by accident, many have just evolved over the years. I always say that if you start with the best of ingredients and treat them with respect, you can’t fail. My only tip for using this book, which I was told a long time ago, is read through the recipe twice before you start – it’s amazing what you miss the first time! I hope you will find my collection of recipes truly inspiring and that you will be brave and try something new!
Happy cooking and enjoy!
the art of smoking
It’s more than likely that smoking food was discovered by accident. Perhaps the weather was so awful that the fish was hung inside to dry, and it was noticed that those nearest the fire not only had a distinctive smoky taste, but lasted longer. Whatever the origins, it seems that by the mid sixteenth century there was a thriving pickling and smoking industry in Scotland. Barrels of salted herring were exported all over the world. Once faster transport gave access to the South and bigger populations, more palatable, less salty but smokier fish were produced, most notably kippers, Arbroath smokies and smoked salmon.
Smoking is a truly artisan way of preserving foods. It is the natural eco-friendly way, using sustainable raw materials. The most important ingredient in the smoking process is time. Time for the fish to take up the salt, time for the fish to slightly dry out before going into the smoke, time for the fish to gently take up the smoke and time for the fish to rest before being sliced. In today’s increasingly time-poor world, these processes tend to be hurried – but only to the detriment of the product.
The industry is divided between artisan smokehouses where an old craft is still plied and factory smokehouses that supply the mass market. They are two completely different establishments, two completely different products. The latter has enormous stainless steel kilns with dials for temperature, dials for humidity and dials for smoke; the former, just the artisan smoker himself, the fire and the weather. Both are good products, both serve market requirements and both are needed.
smoking the Inverawe way
Being traditionalists, we still use brick kilns and oak log fires. We try to emulate the process of the original smoking kilns as closely as we can. We are totally dependent on the weather. The perfect smoking weather is a good south-westerly wind – the worst a cold, damp, still day – which is very rare in this part of the world. Each kiln has its own Inverawe ‘fire box’. This is our own design - an oak-log fire on wheels. It is very simple, controlled manually by an adjustable flap at the base, and once going with a good heart, will gently smoulder for hours. At peak times the fires are kept going 24/7, being stoked by hand every five hours.
To be smoked properly, all fish must be cured or salted. This is primarily for taste as the salt helps to bring out the flavours of the fish, as well as having some preservative qualities. We use two curing methods – ‘dry’ and ‘wet’. In the dry cure method, the fillets are covered with a layer of salt, which in turn draws out the excess water in the fish, thus firming up the flesh and concentrating the oils. This is essential for the cold-smoking method, as the end result is dependent on the fish fillets drying out and taking up the preservative properties of the smoke. The wet cure method is the complete opposite. The
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