Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
A Year In A Scots Kitchen
Title Page
Contents
With thanks
Measures
The Scots Gard’ner:
Dividing the Year
PART ONE: WINTER AND SPRING
31 OCTOBER–1 NOVEMBER
Celebrating Summer’s End
Halloween stapag
Halloween cake with charms
NOVEMBER
Warming Restoratives: Toasting St Andrew
Cock-a-leekie
Cock-a-leekie with sausages
Communal Porridge and Bothy Brose
Porridge
Mixed-grain porridge/brose mix
Tatties, Neeps and Kail
Kail with ginger and garlic
Clapshot
Clapshot with burnt onions
Stovies
Communal stovies
Buttered stovies
Traditional stovies on the stove
Stovies in the oven
Stovies with carrots
Toasting St Andrew
The Scots Gard’ner
DECEMBER
Revelling in the Daft Days
The Hogmanay Sideboard
Plum cake
Black bun
Clootie dumpling
Shortbread
with almond and caraway (Pitcaithly Bannock)
with stem ginger (Yetholm Bannock)
with marmalade
New Year’s Day Dinner: Steak Pie and Trifle
Steak pie
Trifle
Aunt Aileen’s trifle
Shetland Yule Breakfast
Whipcol
Sassermaet
The Scots Gard’ner
JANUARY
Immortalizing Robert Burns: Making Marmalade
Haggis Dinners
Haggis
Marmalade
Making Marmalade
To make orange marmalade
Caledonian cream
The Scots Gard’ner
FEBRUARY
Fasting
Buttermilk pancakes
Fast pancakes with sweet milk
Pouring batter pancakes for tossing (plain)
Pouring batter pancakes for tossing (rich)
The Scots Gard’ner
MARCH
Farming Fish
One Fish, Two Lifestyles
Seared salmon steaks with warm rocket salad
David Wilson’s salmon with crisp skin, served with Sonia Stevenson’s hot orange vinaigrette
The Scots Gard’ner
APRIL
Feasting
The Egg-symbol of New Life
Rich Easter bread
Paskha
Easter tree cake
The Scots Gard’ner
PART TWO: SUMMER AND AUTUMN
MAY
Worshipping Summer’s Beginning
Fire Festivals at Dawn
The Festive Bannock
Curds and Whey
Junket
The Scots Gard’ner
JUNE
Bed and Breakfasting Breakfast Bakery
Breakfast Bakery
Oatcakes — toasted
Oatcakes — baked in the oven
Aitken’s Rowies
Quick-mix Breakfast Loaves and Muffins
Seed and walnut loaf
Oatmeal and hazelnut loaf
Toasted oat and raisin muffins
The Scot’s Gard’ner
JULY
Growing • Fishing • Eating Out
Berry Growing in Cool Summers
Berry-feasting
Berries with meringues and cream
Berries with bread
Berries with eating-jam
My mother’s raspberry eating-jam
Strawberry eating-jam
Berries soaked in rum
Growing Herbs and Flowers
Feasting on Herbs
Tarragon chicken
Iced summer soup
Fishing Crabs and Lobsters
Cooking Crab
Partan bree
Cooking Lobster
Eating Out
Cream scones
Italian Ice-cream
Making Italian Ice-cream
Ice-cream sundae
The Scots Gard’ner
AUGUST
Hunting Game • Cheesemaking
Hunting Game in 1892
Roast grouse
Skirlie toasts
Venison haunch
Cheesemaking
Soft yogurt cheese
The Scots Gard’ner
SEPTEMBER
Harvesting • Breeding Beef • Lamb or Mutton?
Farmed and Wild Shellfish
Seafood Broth
West Coast shellfish and bree
Seaweed
Clokie’s sloke
Oats and Barley
Oats
Barley Bannocks
Bere bannocks with cheese
Heather Honey
Quick and easy Atholl Brose
Mushrooms
Flat mushroom omelette
Black pudding and apple omelette
Barley and mushroom stew
Pickled mushrooms
Breeding Beef
Roast rib of Scotch beef
Roast root vegetables
Lamb or Mutton?
Reesit mutton
Pickled lamb or mutton
Pickled lamb-mutton broth
Pot-roasted pickled chicken
The Scots Gard’ner
OCTOBER
Smoking and Curing Hot Suppers
Smokies
Smokie kedgeree
Finnans
The Fishwife’s Ready-made Dinner
Fishwife’s stew
Cullen skink with mussels
Salt cod and ling with potatoes and garlic
Smoked Salmon
Curing
Baked ham on the bone
Bacon and egg pie
Hot Suppers
Meg Dods’ Tripe Suppers
Tripe with bacon and nutmeg
‘Scotch’ Collops
Mince with herb doughballs
Fish ’n Chips
Light tempura batter
Fish batter (traditional)
Pies and Bridies
The Scots Gard’ner
Sources
Index of Recipes
Main Index
Author Biography
Copyright Page
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →