Cullen Skink

A Gaelic word meaning ‘essence’, ‘soup’ or ‘broth’, ‘skink’ can be made with meat or fish, and is the Scottish version of pottage. Traditionally it could feature beef or, for those who could not afford that, cereal simmered with a sheep’s head. Along the coastlines of Britain, soup-stews made with fish were more common, and this is my version of one that originated in Cullen, a small village in the north-east of Scotland. How the two met and stayed together I’m not quite sure, but they have