SC - Help!!!

[Elaine Koogler]

Another possibility is to use some of the Norse/Viking recipes, if you have
access to them.  After all, much of the northern part of Scotland was populated
by folks from the Northern lands!

Kiri

david friedman wrote:

> 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/
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