This Smoked Coca-Cola Turkey Brine Recipe is made with my favorite Coca-Cola Brine. This may have been the first time Coca-Cola that I brine a turkey with Coca-Cola, but it won’t be the last time.
I prefer to smoke fish in the size I might serve. For example, if I have a limit of small to medium-sized trout, I’ll cut out their backbones, butterfly them, brine and smoke them whole ...
so 140g for my brine recipe below, which requires about two litres of water. The argument is that if you’re adding sugar to the brine as well as salt, the ratio should be around ¾ of salt to ½ ...
Kippers, meanwhile, are smoked herring, split, brined, then cold smoked for between 4 and 24 hours, and are common across the British Isles rather than being a particularly Scottish tradition.