Cullen Skink

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    Portions
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Gary Maclean's Scottish Kitchen: Timeless traditional and contemporary recipes

By Gary Maclean

Published 2022

  • About

Cullen skink is one of those recipes that is so easy to make and provides the biggest wow factor ever. The origins of Cullen skink go back to a small fishing village in the north-east of Scotland called Cullen. It has an incredible and well-documented history, with connections to King Robert the Bruce and Robert Burns. Skink is an old Scots word for shin or knuckle, and soups were often made from these cuts, hence it has developed the secondary meaning of a