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A Year in a Scots Kitchen

By Catherine Brown

Published 1996

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What to do was salt first. That kept the bugs at bay, for a while. But long-term the idea was to hang food from smoke-blackened rafters for at least one winter, if not two. During which time the cool peat smoke wafting upwards from the open fire in the centre of house also smoke-blackened the food. Between the salt and the smoke there would be a lively appetite-rouser when the need arose.
Now food is salted and smoked for a shorter time and not from rafters. But modern methods have the same effect of producing new flavour compounds in food when the aromatic acetates and aldehydes in the cool smoke vapour combine with salt in the flesh. So long as the smoke is not too hot and the food does not ‘cook’, the new smoky flavour will travel gradually through the food, altering its colour and flavour. But if the smoke cooks the food, the flavour will settle mainly on the surface, as it does in an Arbroath Smokie, or a barbecued steak.

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