Scottish recipes for homesick friend

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i have a Scotish friend coming for Christmas dinner, we are in spain. This is her first xmas away from home and i would love to surprise her by putting something Scottish on the menu. Any ideas? By the way I have access to Morisons in Gibraltar, so i might be able to get ingridients.

my best scottish recipe is for cranachan

cranachan

Mmm, that looks lovely. hopefully it will distract other posters from all my spelling mistakes

GOT TO BE STOVIES!! My recipe was used by another MN'er for a party she had. Apparently it went down a treat and is easy to make if you want the recipe????

i would like your recipe sackache my stovies are crap

Here you go then:

In a HUGE pot chuck in:

6-8 x large Peeled and chopped (approx inch square chunks) floury potatoes... like King Edwards for example.

6 x link sausages (good quality with herbs in)... remove skin and break up into chunks.

2 x med onion roughly chopped

large knob of butter

Water - only enough to be about an inch or 2 deep at the bottom of the pan.

Heaped teaspoon of whole grain mustard.

A good helping of salt and pepper.

Cover and simmer stirring every 10mins or so to stop it sticking to pan (which it will!). Its ready when the potatoes are soft and are breaking up. If it seems too runny, let it simmer for 10mins with the lid off.

YUMMMMMMMMMY! Eat with brown bread and butter and LOADS of black pepper. OMG I am soooooooo going to make some tonight!

was on tenderhooks to see if you put meat in - we dont round here you see

(although dad adds broken bits of corned beef to his much to my disgust!)

Thats what it is though.... meat and veg! Are you a veggie? You could use veggie sausages.

Oh and I use pork sausages.... which apparently isn't the tradition. But my Granny gave me the recipe and she's been making it like that since the 1940's .

no im not a veggie

but we just dont put any meat in ours

Och you've got to have meat in it.... thats where the flavour comes from. In fact, in really old recipes they use beef dripping. >vom

they flavour comes from the dripping!

and the onions

honestly, i didnt know others put meat in until recently!

baulk<

Much nicer flavour from pork sausages.

sme people put lamb in and others beef or square sausage

Thanks, i went to get dd from school and suddenly there were loads. Keep them coming

i just make my stovies with stew, sausages, carrots, onion and potatoes. not sure if u can get oat cakes over there but stovies is amazing with them

Been Scottish all my life and never had Cranachan, it looks delish! Can't say the same for most of the other Scottish food I've tried! >ducks

What is scottish food though, other than haggis? I had some very sweet biscuity cake once.

Mince and tatties.

cullen skink is to die for mmmmm might need to make some. ill look for a recipie

A large smoked haddock (weighing around 2 lb)
1 medium onion, finely chopped.
1½ pints (900ml) milk
2 tablespoons butter
8 oz mashed potato
Salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
Chopped parsley
Water
Triangles of toast (as an accompaniment)

Method
Cover the smoked haddock with water, in a shallow pan, skin side down. Bring to the boil and simmer for 4/5 minutes, turning once. Take the haddock from the pan and remove the skin and bones. Break up the fish into flakes, return to the stock and add the chopped onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Simmer for another 15 minutes. Strain, remove the bay leaf but retain the stock and fish. Add the milk to the fish stock and bring back to the boil. Add enough mashed potato to create the consistency you prefer (don't be afraid to make it rich and thick!). Add the fish and reheat. Check for seasoning. Just before serving, add the butter in small pieces so that it runs through the soup.
Serve with chopped parsley on top, accompanied by triangles of toast

heres more scottish recipies link

I'm another one who makes stovies with corned beef

Could really go it now!!

just bumping for the evening lot!

They all sound lovely but I was thinking more I could add to Christmas dinner, starter, main or sweet, although I have had one sweet suggestion that sounds lovely. Sorry to be a pain.

How about clootie dumpling instead of xmas pudding