Breakfast · 15 min · british

Smoked Kippers

This is the kind of British breakfast you’ll make on repeat — kippers and butter, 15 minutes, big payoff.

Ingredients

• 4 Kippers
• 2 tbsp Butter
• 1 Lemon
• 4 slices Brown bread
• 0.25 tsp Cayenne pepper

Steps

1. Kippers are herring, split, salted, and cold-smoked — intensely savory and unapologetically fishy. This is not a breakfast for the timid.
2. Warm them gently: either grill 4 minutes per side or pour boiling water over them in a jug and steep 5 minutes. Never boil kippers — it toughens them.
3. Dot with butter while hot so it melts into the flesh, and squeeze lemon over.
4. Serve on hot buttered brown bread with a dusting of cayenne.
5. Eat with strong tea and the morning paper. Watch for the fine bones — kippers demand your full attention, which is arguably the point.

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