The name of this fish, once commonly eaten for breakfast in Britain, is first recorded in English in the early fourteenth century. Although its origin is uncertain, it may have derived from the French word for the same species of fish, hadot. This word in turn may have developed from the French word adouber, meaning to prepare, just as the related Italian term adobbo refers to a brine used to pickle and preserve fish. If this is the origin of the word, then haddock originally did not refer to a particular species of fish, but to a method of preparing any fish; over time, the method perhaps became so associated with one kind of fish\u2014the haddock\u2014that the term was transferred to that species. Almost the same thing has happened to stockfish, which is not really the name of a fish, but rather refers to the food made by taking cod, splitting it open, and drying it without salt on a stick\u2014or on what in Germany is called a stock. In the sixteenth century, stockfish also came to mean an exceptionally naughty or stupid person, the connection being that such a person\u2014like the hard, dry stockfish\u2014had to be beaten before he was any good. Like haddock, the word stockfish first appeared in English in the early fourteenth century.<\/p>\n
This fish has a physique comparable to that of a cod, featuring a lengthy body and soft fins. Its meat is often described as dry or lean and it’s typically smaller in size, usually weighing no more than two and a half to three pounds.<\/p>\n
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