edinburgh scones

if you learn to make just one scottish delicacy, this should be it.

also, if you want to make me deliriously happy by simply making just one scottish delicacy, this could easily be it.



10 oz. self-raising flour
2 tsps. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 dsp. sugar
2 oz. butter
1/2 cup currants
1 egg
milk

Mix together dry ingredients, then rub in butter and add fruit. Combine egg and milk and add to dry mixture, to form a soft dough. Knead on a lightly floured board. Roll out and cut into 1/2-inch thick rounds. Bake in the oven at 450 degrees for 10 minutes.

Tighnabruaich Rabbit Stew

i have never made this, can you guess why?

1 rabbit
1 oz. flour, seasoned with salt and pepper
2 onions
3 young carrots
2 oz. dripping
1 pt. stock, made from 1 lb. marrow bones of beef stock cube

Wash rabbit well and leave overnight in lightly salted cold water. Cut in pieces and dip each piece in seasoned flour. Clean and chop vegetables and fry with the rabbit till lightly browned. Remove from pan, draining well, and place in a casserole with stock. Cover and simmer till meat is tender. Serves 4.

cock-a-leekie

this used to be my email password. once, i had to speak with an it person for help logging in, and she thought i was being pornographic. i assure you, i was not.

1 cock or boiling fowl
2 qt. beef stock made from shin or marrow bones
2 bunches leeks (approximately 2 lb.), washed and chopped
salt and pepper
prunes (optional)

Place fowl in saucepan, cover with stock, and add chopped leeks, salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer, covered, for 4 hours. Skim fat from surface. Half an hour before soup is ready, add a handful of prunes and continue simmering. When soup is ready, remove the cock or fowl and cut in pieces. Put meat in a tureen and pour the soup over. Serves 6-8.

Aberdeen Sausage

A fitting start, and if you know me, you know why.

This recipe comes from Aberdeen, the Granite City.

1 lb. sausage-meat
1 lb. minced steak
4 oz. minced bacon
8 oz. fresh white breadcrumbs
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
1 egg, beaten
breadcrumbs for coating

Mix together all ingredients, except the last two. Bine with beaten egg. Make into a roll. Boil in a floured cloth for 1 1/2 hours. Roll in breadcrumbs, toasted in the oven. Serve cold with salad. Serves 6.

Burns

Some hae meat that canna eat,
and some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.