SC - Weird Scottish Recipe Titles
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Jun 22 07:06:16 PDT 1999
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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