Sardine

An opened can of sardines - here classic with skin and bones

As sardines are called in vegetable oil pickled and canned bottled sardines . It is the first internationally successfully traded fish preserve that is still widely used today alongside tuna .

history

As early as 1895 , Frank E. Booth began packing oil- pickled Pacific sardines ( Sardinops sagax ) in tin cans on Cannery Row in Monterey , California . Due to the cheap raw materials, the good storage properties and the high nutritional value, this product was used in numerous wars to supply the troops and the population, but it was also a popular, inexpensive food in peacetime.

The cans were produced in many shapes and sizes, but internationally a small cuboid shape with a yellow print and rounded corners was common, which differed slightly depending on the manufacturer. Until the early nineties sheet rolling closures were in German stores still widespread, with the can with a rolling Dietrich was open, which could be attached to a sheet metal clip on the lid. The lockpick had to be used several times, but with more modern deliveries a separate lockpick was marked on each box. Today sardine cans can usually be opened with a pull ring ( ring pull lock) or a can opener .

Manufacturing

The Pacific sardine is about 35 cm long and usually inserted in pieces, in contrast to the Atlantic sardine , which is only about a finger-length and is therefore usually processed whole. Accordingly, Europeans think of “sardines” of something completely different from Americans. In Germany, oil sardines are often skinned and deboned and also available in oil flavored with herbs, lemon or chilli.

For preservation, the sardines are boiled (or steamed, stewed) and put in the cans with the oil (mostly sunflower oil , less often olive oil). These are hermetically sealed and then heated to over 100 ° C in an autoclave . This sterilizes the content and makes it durable.

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  125g standard sardine can with pull ring

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  Canned sardines with skin and bones on a plate

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  Oil sardines without skin or bones in a can

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1. ↑ A Brief History of Old Cannery Row (English) ( Memento of September 11, 2015 Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Canned sardines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Oil sardine  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations