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Traditional Scottish Recipes
Generations of Scots have grown up on recipes using oatmeal, curly kail (cabbage), haddock, potatoes, offal, and soups made with a good ham hough. This book combines traditional, classic recipes with Scottish family favourites - complete with tips - handed down within families to produce a tried and tested working cookbook of 86 recipes. All the recipes are simple and easy-to-follow, and each has an introduction that gives a short history or helpful explanation of origins, or tips on how to make each classic well. Recipes include soups and starters, game, meat, and vegetables, fish, and shellfish, bread, baking, and desserts and puddings, using dairy, cereal and soft fruit produce. Elderberry wine, rhubarb and ginger jam, roast leg of Scotch lamb with fresh rosemary and floury potatoes. Other staples include lentil soup, Scotch broth, steak pie, stovies, haggis, pan-cooked pheasant, steamed pudding with Drambuie syrup, pancakes, fruit loaf, potato scones, shortbread, macaroon bars, tablet, marmalade, Clyde valley chutney and Gaelic coffee.
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 9, 2009
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July 26, 2023
Nice roundup, all types of food from breakfast to desserts and baking via meat ,fish No photos ,just a few black and white drawings ...but nice clear simple recipes and a bit of background info, history,chat at start of each.
April 25, 2012
To many people, Scottish food is porridge, haggis, shortbread and maybe deep-fried Mars bars, yet to those who have received enlightenment the reality is a lot more diverse and tasty to boot.
Based from humble origins using locally-available produce, Scottish recipes have developed and spread around the world over time to the extent that many people might be surprised when they realise the true origin of a particular dish. Despite this, Scottish food remains somewhat under-appreciated within the culinary world-at-large, so maybe this book will enable you to get an inside view and see what things you may have been missing.
This a relatively basic book - no full colour illustrations, no fancy artwork showing chefs adoring themselves in a stainless steel oven reflection and no dream shots. But there is still an old-world charm about this book and it does, absolutely, provide a wide range of recipes and tips to help one make one's own Scottish food.
There are many recipes that I've never even heard of before, despite an interest in Scottish regional cookery, and this is an inspiration to head to the kitchen and try a few out.
Despite the practicalities and economics of paperback book publishing, it would have been nice to have at least a colour print insert showing the final dishes. It would not even be a trouble to have to alternate between the recipes and the "colour supplement" but one would have got a much better idea about the unknown food that one might be tempted to cook based on description and ingredients alone. If nothing else, one would have got an impression about how the authentic food should look like. But that is just a small mark against an otherwise excellent, value-packaged little slice of Scotland.
Traditional Scottish Recipes, written by Eleanor Cowan and published by Waverley Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-902407-77-7, 192 pages. Typical price: GBP4.99.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
Based from humble origins using locally-available produce, Scottish recipes have developed and spread around the world over time to the extent that many people might be surprised when they realise the true origin of a particular dish. Despite this, Scottish food remains somewhat under-appreciated within the culinary world-at-large, so maybe this book will enable you to get an inside view and see what things you may have been missing.
This a relatively basic book - no full colour illustrations, no fancy artwork showing chefs adoring themselves in a stainless steel oven reflection and no dream shots. But there is still an old-world charm about this book and it does, absolutely, provide a wide range of recipes and tips to help one make one's own Scottish food.
There are many recipes that I've never even heard of before, despite an interest in Scottish regional cookery, and this is an inspiration to head to the kitchen and try a few out.
Despite the practicalities and economics of paperback book publishing, it would have been nice to have at least a colour print insert showing the final dishes. It would not even be a trouble to have to alternate between the recipes and the "colour supplement" but one would have got a much better idea about the unknown food that one might be tempted to cook based on description and ingredients alone. If nothing else, one would have got an impression about how the authentic food should look like. But that is just a small mark against an otherwise excellent, value-packaged little slice of Scotland.
Traditional Scottish Recipes, written by Eleanor Cowan and published by Waverley Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-902407-77-7, 192 pages. Typical price: GBP4.99.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
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