Kippers

It is hard to get good kippers nowadays - not for want of smokers, but for want of herrings. Stocks are depleted and the fish are much smaller than they used to be. Herrings were first kippered in 1861 at Craister in Northumberland and it was recorded, ‘Today we smoked herrings as salmon is smoked in Scotland’. When we were filming for ‘Two Fat Ladies at a smokery in Whitby, which produced delicious kippers, we discovered that there are 79 words in the Lord’s Prayer and, at that time, 3875