Serendipity...found Finnan Haddie

**Dall_Piobaire** · 16th February 11, 11:00 AM

I have been on a prolonged search for Finnan Haddie, for months now, finally found it, and in all places just miles from my chidhood home, well sort of.

I will assume many here have heard of Cameron's of Kearny NJ.
Very friendly and a gold mine of Scottish gustatory delight. Turns out, my grandfather used to take me into this very place when I was but a wee lad.

Now, the orignal owners are down in Fla, and have almost everything you could want, including my Finnan Haddie....score.

I know they do some games around, so some may already know of them, but I just thought I would share.

They claim to have the closest thing to real Haggis this side of the pond

**Lallans** · 18th February 11, 09:12 AM

All you need to do is to find a store with Newfoundland roots eh? People from there used to force it on me- not that force was necessary.

**auld argonian** · 18th February 11, 10:17 AM

My wife's bachelor uncle used to make that for Christmas Eve Dinner...

...I certainly hope that the stuff that you found is better than his...it was, to say the least, interesting.

The old pronouncement: well, maybe you just ain't had it cooked right...

Best

AA

**Whidbey78** · 18th February 11, 10:32 AM

I've never had it in the "traditional" fashion. I do have a family recipe for it, but since my grandmother's time we've baked it and based it off a type of roux (roo, rue, however the heck it's spelled) made from cornflour. I'm surprised the recipe survived in any form...not much haddock to be found in Missouri during the 20's and 30's.

Still, I like it!

I've never seen it in any restaurant or pub that I can remember. Good find!

**Lallans** · 18th February 11, 10:46 AM

We're all talking about smoked salted haddock served in a white sauce, right?

**Whidbey78** · 18th February 11, 11:35 AM

Unless Finnan Haddie is also a euphemism I've never heard of, then yes, smoked haddock in a cream sauce. My grandmother called it milkfish which doesn't sound appetizing at all. I've always liked it though.

**Dall_Piobaire** · 18th February 11, 02:34 PM

Yep, cold smoked haddock, and it was/is a custom to eat it around Christmass or Yule.

I have always loved it, so I would harass my grand to make it everytime I saw her, sometimes we had to substitute cod.

I got some Haggis too, closest thing to the real thing this side of the Atlantic.