Cullen Skink

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Cullen Skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked Finnan haddie, potatoes and onions.

This soup is a local speciality, from the town of Cullen in Moray, on the north-east coast of Scotland. The soup is often served as a starter at formal Scottish dinners.

The name is not derived Gaelic. The first element refers to the town of Cullen in Moray, 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]

Cullen Skink appears in many traditional Scottish cookery books and appears on a large number of menus across Scotland. The soup is extremely easy and quick to make.

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  1. ^ Robinson, M. (ed) The Concise Scots Dictionary, Aberdeen University Press 1985

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