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Ailsa Craig Onions

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Ailsa Craig Onions are a variety of a Spanish onion. They have straw yellow skin and are very white inside. They average 1 to 2 pounds in weight (450 to 900g), and 6 to 8 inches across (15 to 20 cm.) They can grow as big as 4 pounds (1.8 kg.) They have a sweet,…

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Atholl Brose

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Atholl Brose is a thick, spoonable drink, made from honey, oatmeal, water and whiskey. You mix the oatmeal and water to form a thick paste, let stand a while, then strain the oatmeal out, keeping the liquid. You mix the liquid with honey and whisky, stir or shake well, and serve. It will keep in…

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Auld Alliance Cheese Spread

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This is used as a savoury spread for nibblies or as a starter. You can spread it on warm toast (either dry or buttered), potato scones or oatcakes.

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Black Bun

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Black bun is a Scottish rich fruit dessert that could be described as a cross between a square or rectangular-shaped pie, and a cake. It is like a pie, in that it is baked with top, bottom and side crusts, and a filling. But, it is usually sliced and served like a cake.

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Blackwood Dry Gin

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Blackwood Dry Gin is gin based on alcohol distilled from barley and maize. It is a pale green colour, and has a more intense aroma than many other gins. It is called a vintage gin, not because it’s aged, which it’s not, but because the botanicals used in it change each year so that each…

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Bread Sauce Recipe

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For Thanksgiving or Christmas (or anytime), consider reviving an old tradition which has just about vanished completely — bread sauce. Bread sauce was always a classic accompaniment to pork or chicken.

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Camp Coffee

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Camp Coffee is a black, concentrated coffee-flavoured syrup sold in the UK and in Canada. The syrup is 26 percent chicory root, 4 percent coffee, and sugar and water. It is made by McCormick Foods in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Camp Coffee comes in a square-shape glass bottle, with a very decorative label. The bottle itself…

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Cock-a-Leekie Soup Recipe

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This recipe apparently has its origins in 18th century Edinburgh, Scotland — where the unlucky rooster that lost a cock fight would be tossed into a pot and fed up to the spectators

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Drambuie

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Drambuie is a golden coloured liqueur based on aged scotch whisky (Talisker brand), honey and herbs and spices. Among the flavouring, experts figure, is lemon, saffron and sugar; its colour may come from the saffron. It is 40% alcohol. It can be drunk on its own, straight-up or on ice, or used as a mixer…

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Drambuie Cream

Note: as of 2004, Drambuie Cream is a defunct product. Drambuie Cream is a liqueur made in Broxburn, Scotland by the Glenard company, as a joint venture between Scottish companies Glenmorangie and The Drambuie Liqueur Company Ltd 17% alcohol, it has actual dairy cream (stabilized) in it, along with honey. It is very sweet and…

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Farls

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Farls are thin, flat bread shaped like a triangle. The base of the triangle is actually rounded slightly, such that if you fit four of them together, you more or less make a circle. They are made from wheat flour (white or whole wheat) or oatmeal. There will be a leavener in the mixture, such…

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IRN BRU: A Scottish Soft Drink

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IRN BRU is an orangey-rust coloured, fizzy, sweet Scottish soft drink. It tastes like a cross between bubble gum and cream soda. It comes in cans, and glass and plastic bottles. The bottles are 750ml, with a 20p deposit on them (as of 2005.) A bottle size sold in America is 500ml, on a trial…

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Neeps

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Neeps is a Scottish term for cooked swede, diced or mashed. It is usually cooked by boiling, but can be steamed or microwaved. Sources Smillie, Susan. Are ‘neeps’ swedes or turnips? Manchester: The Guardian. 25 January 2010.

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Oatcakes Recipe

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This is a classic Scottish quick bread recipe for oatcakes.

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Parsnip Mash

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You can make this a few hours ahead, and then reheat using a bit of milk or butter.

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Plain Scones Recipe

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A classic recipe for classic scones.

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Quick Porridge Recipe

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This is so fast, the two minutes this takes is barely enough time to organize the tea and toast to go with. Once you’ve made porridge in a microwave, you’ll never go back to cleaning up a sticky porridge pot again.

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Rosemary Oatmeal Fritters

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These fritters taste as good as they are good for you

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Scottish Food

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Scots get tired of their food being summarized as haggis, whisky, deep-fried Mars bars, and shortbread in tartan tins. Yet there is something to it. Haggis is oats and offal, of which the Scots both eat a lot. Scots are very proud of their whisky (which they spell without an “e.) And as for shortbread,…

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Whipped Shortbread Recipe

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Though not exactly actually whipped, whipped shortbread cookies are much lighter than regular shortbread, and almost melt in your mouth.

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