[Sca-cooks] Dried fish question

[David Friedman]

Many thanks--it looks as though you've nailed it.

I doubt I can get dried pearl mullet outside of Turkey, though I may 
try. It's in the same family as carp, and dried carp seems to exist in 
Chinese cooking, so I'll see if I can find some and try using it.

On 9/8/15 9:13 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
> An entry in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain 
> and Ireland provides that tirrihk fish came from Lake Van in Anatolia.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=_lymSEkeqEkC&pg=PA985&lpg=PA985&dq=tirikh+fish&source=bl&ots=N3nttsRmZw&sig=84ns43XwixdD8RdpVgP_1wnmPZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAWoVChMIvIDh6YbpxwIVA02SCh0AqAjb#v=onepage&q=tirikh%20fish&f=false 
>
>
> Lake Van is a closed salt water lake.  The only fish know in its 
> waters is Chalcalburnus tarichi, more modernly Alburnus tarichi, AKA 
> pearl mullet, inci kefali.    A. tarichi is only found in Lake Van.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Van
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alburnus_tarichi
>
> Bear
>
>
>
> 1. Does anyone have any information on what tirrikh were like, hence
> what varieties of fish would be closest? Perry, in an old correspondence
> I had with him, mentioned that salted fish from the relevant lake are
> still sold in Istanbul under the name "kefal," which is the name of the
> grey mullet. He doesn't know if what are now sold are the same as what
> were called tirikh, and the grey mullet is a salt water fish, but it at
> least suggests the possibility of looking for a fresh water fish in some
> way similar to the mullet. Of course, even if I did that, I would still
> have the problem of figuring out what kind of fish are in the packages
> of dried fish in the Chinese grocery store.
>

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