SC - Tempera question

[James F. Johnson]

At 3:20 PM -0500 6/8/00, Ruth Blake and David Blake wrote:
>I agreed to do Yule revel this year and our theme is Scottish.
>I have a few scottish recipes I have found..all the standards like 
>scotch eggs,
>haggis, shortbread. Does anyone have some period scottish recipes that might
>help me out.

I'm afraid the short answer is probably "no."

So far as I know, there are no published period Scottish cookbooks. I 
believe there was a lady posting to this list some time back who said 
she had a family cookbook that went back to period, and was from 
Scotland, but I don't know whether she was correctly describing what 
she had or whether it's contents will ever become publicly available.

You could use period English recipes, of which lots have survived, 
looking for ones that resemble later Scottish recipes, or use 
ingredients that you think were available in Scotland, or whatever. 
Simply assuming that traditional Scottish cooking is period is 
probably a bad idea--it might be, or it might be from the 
seventeenth, eighteenth, or even nineteenth century.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/