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Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
Haggis baked in its skin, served with mashed swede and mashed potato and a whisky cream sauce poured over the lot.
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Smoked fish, oats and whisky in the pudding. 32 Scottish recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 32 recipes cover 7 of the site’s categories, among them 10 bakes, 8 dinners, 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 3 desserts and 1 drink. Of these, 7 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Hot Toddy (10 min), Porridge with Brown Sugar (10 min) and Arbroath Smokie (15 min). For 9, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 20 easy, 9 medium and 3 hard.
As written, 17 are vegetarian, 2 vegan, 8 gluten-free and 5 dairy-free.
Scottish recipes — all 32 recipes
Desserts
Cranachan
Toasted oats, whisky, honey, cream and raspberries layered in a glass. Assembled in ten minutes and traditionally…
Lunch
Cullen Skink
Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…
Baking
Millionaire's Shortbread
Three layers that each need doing properly: a shortbread base baked until sandy, a caramel boiled to the right…
Drinks
Hot Toddy
Whisky, honey, lemon and hot water, in that order and in the right proportions. A drink first and a remedy second…
Lunch
Scotch Broth
Lamb, barley and root vegetables cooked into one thick pot until a spoon stands up in it. The soup that stands in…
Dinner
Stovies
Potatoes stewed in dripping with onions and whatever meat is left from Sunday, until the bottom catches slightly…
Side dish
Rumbledethumps
Potato, swede and cabbage mashed together, topped with cheese and baked. The Scottish Borders answer to what to do…
Baking
Dundee Cake
A light fruit cake with almonds arranged in rings on top, and no cherries in it at all. Made with Seville orange…
Bread
Tattie Scones
Mashed potato and flour rolled thin, cut into triangles and cooked on a dry griddle. Part of a Scottish fry-up.
Dinner
Cock-a-Leekie Soup
Scotland's national chicken soup: a golden broth of chicken and barley, with leeks added in two halves and a few…
Bread
Drop Scones
Small, thick pancakes dropped from a spoon onto a hot griddle and turned as soon as bubbles appear. Served warm with…
Bread
Oatcakes
Crisp, nutty Scottish oatcakes from oatmeal, oil and hot water, cut into rounds and baked. Thirty minutes.
Desserts
Scottish Tablet
The hard, grainy Scottish sweet of sugar, butter and condensed milk, boiled and beaten until it sets. Forty minutes…
Bread
Selkirk Bannock
A big round Borders fruit loaf of buttery yeast dough and sultanas, glazed and eaten sliced with butter. Just over…
Holiday Specials
Black Bun
A dense, spiced Hogmanay fruit cake soaked in whisky and baked inside a case of pastry. Make it ahead. Three and a…
Lunch
Forfar Bridie
A folded, crimped pastry semicircle filled with chopped steak and onion and baked until golden. The Angus pasty, in…
Lunch
Scotch Pie
A small, hand-raised hot-water-crust pie of peppery mutton or lamb, with a hollow top for the gravy. The…
Desserts
Clootie Dumpling
A spiced fruit pudding boiled in a floured cloth, then dried in the oven to a dark, chewy skin. Just over three and…
Breakfast
Lorne Sausage
Seasoned beef and pork pressed into a loaf tin, chilled and cut into square slices for frying. The Scottish…
Side dish
Clapshot
Potatoes and swede boiled and mashed together with butter and plenty of chives, from Orkney. It is sweeter and more…
Baking
Empire Biscuits
Two crisp, buttery shortbread-style biscuits sandwiched with raspberry jam, iced in white and topped with a glacé…
Baking
Aberdeen Butteries
Flat, flaky, salty rolls made from a yeast dough layered with butter and lard. Aberdeen's morning roll, said to have…
Dinner
Mince and Tatties
Browned beef mince simmered with onion, carrot and gravy, served over mashed potato. Four servings in 45 minutes…
Breakfast
Porridge with Brown Sugar
Rolled oats simmered in milk and water until thick and creamy, with a spoon of brown sugar melted on top. Two…
Bread
Oat Cakes
Porridge oats, butter and hot water pressed into a dough, cut into rounds and cooked for 20 minutes into crisp…
Breakfast
Full Scottish Breakfast
Lorne sausage, link sausages, bacon, black pudding, tattie scones, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes fried in one pan.
Baking
Brown Sugar Shortbread
Buttery shortbread fingers made with light brown sugar for a caramel flavour, baked for 25 minutes at 150C.
Baking
Gluten-Free Shortbread
Buttery shortbread made with rice flour and cornflour in place of wheat, pressed into a tin and baked for 20 minutes…
Baking
Vegan Shortbread
Buttery-tasting shortbread fingers made with coconut oil, flour and cornflour, baked for 20 minutes at 160C.
Dinner
Arbroath Smokie
A hot-smoked haddock pair warmed for 10 minutes in the oven with butter, pulled from the bone and eaten with brown…
Dinner
Skirlie
Pinhead oatmeal fried for 15 minutes in butter with onion until toasted and crumbly, a Scottish side or stuffing.