Scottish heritage recipes – Kedgeree
Kedgeree is a dish whose etymology is surrounded by uncertainty, myth, and legend, a classic dish that’s as at home as a Sunday breakfast as it is as a midweek evening meal. Essentially a one pot [...]
Tablet ice cream
‘What’s tablet?’. It’s a question that probably every Scot has heard at some point in their lives. It’s a kind of Scottish fudge type thing, but isn’t. [...]
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Festy cock
Scottish cuisine is full of dishes with ancient names that seem fairly odd to the modern tongue; Cullen skink, skirlie, rumbledthumps, and clapshot all spring immediately to mind. However ‘festy [...]
In Autumn, Game, Ingredients, Meat, Poultry and Game, Scottish Heritage, Seasons, Slow Cooked, Whisky, Wild Food, Winter
Posted Topside of venison with rowan and whisky
Speyside is a place that I’ve always held dear, seemingly less rugged than the west coast where I spent most of my childhood holidays but at the same time majestic in its own way. I always [...]
In Autumn, Desserts, Fruit, Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Seasons, Summer, Whisky
Posted Cranachan cheesecake
I rarely find myself writing on here these days, weeks seem to pass, recipes pile up and nothing appears. However having found a glut of wild raspberries by Loch Maree today I felt I had to mark [...]
In Autumn, Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Quick Dishes, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Vegetables, Winter
Posted Clapshot
I have no idea why swedes and turnips have their names switched either side of the border between Scotland and England, they just do. For this recipe you need what I know as a turnip, the large [...]
In Autumn, Cereals and pulses, Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Quick Dishes, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Winter
Posted Skirlie
Skirlie is one of those wonderful Scottish words that’s just so descriptive, and my introduction to it was during my vegetarian days when Dad made it as an alternative to stuffing for me on [...]
In Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Meat, Poultry and Game, Mutton/Lamb, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Soups, Summer, Vegetables
Posted Hairst bree – Lamb and summer vegetable soup
This is my take on a traditional Scottish dish which is called variously hotch potch or hairst bree (harvest broth). Traditionally made made with neck of lamb or mutton, I prefer to use the shank [...]
In Autumn, Ingredients, Meat, Poultry and Game, Preserved, Recipes, Rose & ruby veal, Scottish Heritage, Slow Cooked, Winter
Posted Rose veal potted hough
There was always something satisfying about seeing those little pots of preserved meat in the butchers. Off brown with a shiny pallor from the jelly they looked like pure flavour in a tub. Except [...]
In Autumn, Breakfast, Fish, Fish and Seafood, Ingredients, Leftovers, Quick Dishes, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Spring, Summer
Posted Double trout fishcakes
The Scots have an inherent love of leftovers, there’s very little which we won’t re-use a second time to prevent waste. Patties are a particular favourite way of doing this and these [...]