A year in a Scots kitchen : celebrating summer's end to worshipping its beginning
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A year in a Scots kitchen : celebrating summer's end to worshipping its beginning
Neil Wilson Pub., c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191) and indexes
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Description
This cookbook follows a traditional year north of the Border, based on feasts and festivals commencing in October and November with dishes such as Cock-a-Leekie, Clapshot and Stovies. The author was the former food correspondent of The Herald and winner of the Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year (1989 and 1995). The year's worth of recipes includes: a Shetland Yule Breakfast; Atlantic Salmon; Aberdeen Rowies; Ayrshire Bacon; Tripe & Potatoes; Scotch Pies; and Forfar Bridies.
Table of Contents
Contents With thanks ix Measures x The Scots Gard'ner xi Dividing the Year xii PART ONE: WINTER AND SPRING 31 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER Celebrating Summer's End 2 Halloween stapag 4 Halloween cake with charms 5 NOVEMBER Warming Restoratives Toasting St Andrew 7 Cock-a-leekie 8 Cock-a-leekie with sausages 9 Communal Porridge and Bothy Brose 10 Porridge 12 Mixed-grain porridge/brose mix 13 Tatties, Neeps and Kail 14 Kail with ginger and garlic 17 Clapshot 18 Clapshot with burnt onions 18 Stovies 20 Communal stovies 20 Buttered stovies 20 Traditional stovies on the stove 20 Stovies in the oven 21 Stovies with carrots 22 Toasting St Andrew 23 The Scots Gard'ner 25 DECEMBER Revelling in the Daft Days 26 The Hogmanay Sideboard 30 Plum cake 31 Black bun 31 Clootie dumpling 33 Shortbread 34 Shortbread (gritty, fine and smooth) 35 with almond and caraway (Pitcaithly Bannock) 36 with stem ginger (Yetholm Bannock) 36 with marmalade 36 New Year's Day Dinner: Steak Pie and Trifle 37 Steak pie 37 Trifle 39 Aunt Aileen's trifle 40 Shetland Yule Breakfast 41 Whipcol 41 Sassermaet 42 The Scots Gard'ner 43 JANUARY Immortalizing Robert Burns Making Marmalade 44 Haggis Dinners 44 Haggis 46 Marmalade 49 Making Marmalade 51 To make orange marmalade 51 Caledonian cream 52 The Scots Gard'ner 53 FEBRUARY Fasting 54 Buttermilk pancakes 56 Fast pancakes with sweet milk 57 Pouring batter pancakes for tossing (plain) 58 Pouring batter pancakes for tossing (rich) 58 The Scots Gard'ner 59 MARCH Farming Fish 60 One Fish,Two Lifestyles 60 Seared salmon steaks with warm rocket salad 62 David Wilson's salmon with crisp skin, served with Sonia Stevenson's hot orange vinaigrette 62 The Scots Gard'ner 64 APRIL Feasting 65 The Egg-symbol of New Life 65 Rich Easter bread 67 Paskha 68 Easter tree cake 69 The Scots Gard'ner 71 PART TWO: SUMMER AND AUTUMN MAY Worshipping Summer's Beginning 74 Fire Festivals at Dawn 74 The Festive Bannock 76 Curds and Whey 77 Junket 78 The Scots Gard'ner 78 JUNE Bed and Breakfasting Breakfast Bakery 79 Breakfast Bakery 80 Oatcakes - toasted 81 Oatcakes - baked in the oven 82 Aitken's Rowies 84 Quick-mix Breakfast Loaves and Muffins 86 Seed and walnut loaf 86 Oatmeal and hazelnut loaf 87 Toasted oat and raisin muffins 87 The Scot's Gard'ner 88 JULY Growing Fishing Eating Out 89 Berry Growing in Cool Summers 89 Berry-feasting 92 Berries with meringues and cream 92 Berries with bread 93 Berries with eating-jam 94 My mother's raspberry eating-jam 95 Strawberry eating-jam 95 Berries soaked in rum 96 Growing Herbs and Flowers 96 Feasting on Herbs 98 Tarragon chicken 98 Iced summer soup 101 Fishing Crabs and Lobsters 102 Cooking Crab 104 Partan bree 105 Cooking Lobster 106 Eating Out 106 Cream scones 109 Italian Ice-cream 110 Making Italian Ice-cream 112 Ice-cream sundae 113 The Scots Gard'ner 113 AUGUST Hunting Game Cheesemaking 114 Hunting Game in 1892 114 Roast grouse 117 Skirlie toasts 118 Venison haunch 120 Cheesemaking 120 Soft yogurt cheese 128 The Scots Gard'ner 129 SEPTEMBER Harvesting Breeding Beef Lamb or Mutton? 130 Farmed and Wild Shellfish 131 Seafood Broth 135 West Coast shellfish and bree 136 Seaweed 136 Clokie's sloke 137 Oats and Barley 137 Oats 139 Barley Bannocks 141 Bere bannocks with cheese 141 Heather Honey 142 Quick and easy Atholl Brose 146 Mushrooms 146 Flat mushroom omelette 147 Black pudding and apple omelette 148 Barley and mushroom stew 149 Pickled mushrooms 149 Breeding Beef 150 Roast rib of Scotch beef 156 Roast root vegetables 157 Lamb or Mutton? 158 Reesit mutton 159 Pickled lamb or mutton 159 Pickled lamb-mutton broth 159 Pot-roasted pickled chicken 161 The Scots Gard'ner 161 OCTOBER Smoking and Curing Hot Suppers 162 Smokies 163 Smokie kedgeree 165 Finnans 165 The Fishwife's Ready-made Dinner 166 Fishwife's stew 167 Cullen skink with mussels 168 Salt cod and ling with potatoes and garlic 168 Smoked Salmon 169 Curing 171 Baked ham on the bone 173 Bacon and egg pie 174 Hot Suppers 174 Meg Dods'Tripe Suppers 176 Tripe with bacon and nutmeg 176 'Scotch' Collops 177 Mince with herb doughballs 177 Fish 'n Chips 179 Light tempura batter 181 Fish batter (traditional) 182 Pies and Bridies 182 The Scots Gard'ner 186 Sources 187 Index of Recipes 189 Main Index 190
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