SC - Weird Scottish Recipe Titles

[Philip & Susan Troy]

snowfire at mail.snet.net wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if you guys would like to hazzard a guess at what
> on earth these recipes might be? ;-)  Nanna assures me she'll put up the
> answers for us in a later post.

>From memory...not my strong suit.

> >Bawd Bree

Hare Soup/Stew.

> >Blawn Whitings

No floggin' idea, unless it's a reference to a specific shape the
whiting are formed into, tails in mouths.

> >Broonie

Something brown...

> >Brose

This just means broth or pottage. Could be anything from oatmeal
porridge to a more involved soup or even a rather tipsy oatmeal-cream dessert.

> >Cabbie claw or Cranachan

This is a presentation of fish, usually cod, in a cream/hardboiled egg sauce.

> >Carageen Mould

Agar or other seaweed-thickened pudding, more or less, made with milk,
turned out of a mold. 

> >Car-cakes

A '54 Studebaker works well for these. I dunno.

> >Clapshot

Tatties an' neeps, bashit together.

> >Clootie Dumpling

As I recall, a plum pudding variant, named after the cloth it's boiled
in. [Clootie or Cloutie = Cloth]

> >Crappit heids

I've heard of this. I used to know. Honest.

> >Cream Crowdie

I believe this is a sweet dessert involving cream and oats, resembling
real crowdie in appearance and texture.

> >Crowdie

Fresh curd cheese, like cottage cheese.

> >Cullen Skink

Smoked Haddock soup.

> >Feather Fowlie

Huh?

> >Finnan Haddie

Smoked Haddock, traditionally caught and smoked in and around Findon,
near Aberdeen.

> >Forfar Bridies

Cornish pasties, more or less.

> >Hattit Kit

A syllabub variant.

> >Hodgils

Oatmeal dumplings, kinda like coarse gnocchi.

> >Kail Brose

Kale and oat soup.

> >Krappin and Stap

The urge to make a flippant and slightly rude response is almost
unbearable. Shall we move on?

> >Lang Kail

Presumably a kale dish, otherwise, I dunno.

> >Mealie Pudding
> >Parlies
> >Partan Bree
> >Partan Pie (not a pie at all)

Um, uhhh....

> >Potted Hough

Beef shank, simmered until nearly disintegrated, cooled and gelled in
pots. Potted beef.

> >Rizzared haddies

De'il tak it! I cannae tell ye!

> >Rumbledethumps

A cabbage-mashed potato dish similar to Colcannon.

> >Sillocks

Uhhhhh....duhhhh....

> >Skirlie

Yum! A slightly dryish oatmeal "pilaf" with onions, a little like kasha.

> >Sowans

I should know this one. I don't, though.

> >Stovies

A baked casserole of sliced potato, meat, and onion, in layers. Eaten,
oddly enough, as an accompaniment to other meat dishes.

- -OR-

Herring fried in a coating of - surprise - oatmeal. Sometimes small
mackerel, I believe.

Depends on where in Scotland you are.

> >White Collops

Hmmm. Nowadays a sort of hash made of chopped or ground red meat, often
with onions, in gravy. Formerly almost any meat, so I wonder if white
collops are made from veal or chicken, and/or are in a white sauce... .

I have to confess something here. Much as I love reading Robert Burns,
there are times when I'm exposed at length to the Scots English dialect
that I come away thinking of the line from "Blazing Saddles": 'We all
owe Gabby Johnson a vote of thanks for what he has just told us here
today: not only was it _authentic_ frontier gibberish, but...'

I don't win a canned haggis for this, do I???

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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