Definitions

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  • noun haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter

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Examples

  • It began with fruit, and may be followed by ham or bacon and eggs with johnny-cake and potatoes, or a simple breakfast may be started with cereal, served with cream, and followed by broiled finnan haddie and baked potatoes.

    An Edwardian Breakfast | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • In England, steamed finnan haddie was the favorite breakfast fish, and egg dishes wee always welcomed, accompanied with mushrooms, small French peas or potatoes.

    An Edwardian Breakfast | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Enjoyable as these are, someone accustomed to a longer list of optionspancakes, waffles, omelets, sugary cereals, corned-beef hash, granola, oatmeal, grits, finnan haddiemight find that he or she is waking up of a Mediterranean morning with more appetite than anticipation.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • Enjoyable as these are, someone accustomed to a longer list of optionspancakes, waffles, omelets, sugary cereals, corned-beef hash, granola, oatmeal, grits, finnan haddiemight find that he or she is waking up of a Mediterranean morning with more appetite than anticipation.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • Enjoyable as these are, someone accustomed to a longer list of optionspancakes, waffles, omelets, sugary cereals, corned-beef hash, granola, oatmeal, grits, finnan haddiemight find that he or she is waking up of a Mediterranean morning with more appetite than anticipation.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • Enjoyable as these are, someone accustomed to a longer list of optionspancakes, waffles, omelets, sugary cereals, corned-beef hash, granola, oatmeal, grits, finnan haddiemight find that he or she is waking up of a Mediterranean morning with more appetite than anticipation.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The rillettes are made with salt cod, finnan haddie and boiled potatoes, which are all whipped together and then spread on croutons.

    Dining out with Moira Hodgson 2002

  • On a platter in the shape of a fish, she brought out kippers, smoked finnan haddie in cream, pan-fried potatoes with onions, scrambled eggs with sun-dried tomatoes and chives, and a basket of fresh-baked blueberry muffins.

    The Shadow Box Maxim, John R. 1996

  • Megan's pout did not affect her appetite, she went nuts over the finnan haddie, but it didn't stop her from making cracks.

    The Shadow Box Maxim, John R. 1996

  • She was toying with warm baking-powder biscuits, creamed finnan haddie, and a London prostitute who went by the stage name Betsy Port-Smithe.

    The Season Of The Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

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