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Help me, Scottish MNers!: Stovies

78 replies

Penthesileia · 13/01/2009 20:37

I was reminded by recent reports that Gordon Brown's favourite food is rumbledethumps that one of my preferred childhood foods was Stovies (some smart-arse journalist compared the two and belittled both. Harumph).

Sadly, my mum died when I was 13, and she never showed me how to make them.

17 years is too long to go without Stovies!

Does anyone know how to make them?

TIA!

OP posts:
AuraofDora · 14/01/2009 20:41

never heard of mince in it
feck, i hated them with fervour as a kid
am sure it was sauasage in them by ex glaswegian mother cooking in central scotland

Jbck · 14/01/2009 20:45

We were at a wedding recently & the evening buffet was stovies, mini pies & mini bacon rolls. Quite a posh place & everyone lapped it up.

Altho' not the stovies for me. [yuck smiley] DH was in seventh heaven.

pushchair · 14/01/2009 20:47

Jbck scotch pies? fab! Should have had fish and chips with ginger pop too

GentleOtter · 14/01/2009 20:48

Och MawBroon not your NEW HOB??? Is that the one that had the chip and now it has split??
I hope the company are going to replace it.

We use silverside in the stovies

mawbroon · 14/01/2009 20:50

Which variety of continental is your DH?

Mine is half dutch, and they wouldn't bat an eyelid at stovies, given that they eat kilos of potatoes each per week.

Can claim the hob off the insurance, but still, it is a pain in the arse. Have the camping stove set up just now...

AuraofDora · 14/01/2009 21:01

silverside, no less! oh get you, hen

stovies on a camp stove! you are a trooper mawbroon

GentleOtter · 15/01/2009 14:46

Oh aye Aura. Awwfy pan loafy here ken.

Trooper? She is a Goddess doing stovies on a camping stove.

mawbroon · 15/01/2009 14:54

No, no, you misunderstand.

I made the stovies on my bonny brand new ceramic hob (which DH chipped before we had even got the fecking credit card bill through for).

I foolishly did one mash of the stovies on top of the bonny new ceramic hob top (previously chipped) and that is when it snapped.

Since then, I have had to use the camping stove as we can't get to look at replacements until the weekend.

Mind you, it's a bloody good 2 burner stove which used to belong to my grandparents and it is about 50 years old, so there's no reason why I couldn't do my cheating with the pressure cooker stovies because they only take 20 mins.

LackaDAISYcal · 15/01/2009 14:58

mince here...also from fife.

I like them quite sloppy, like a soupl with solid bits of potato in, but my mum's were the solid mashed up together variety.

My top tip for successful stovies; a generous slop of brown sauce added during cooking.

DH, yorkshire, loves them

Jbck · 15/01/2009 18:00

Pushchair yes wee mini scotch pies, but the downside was they only had tomato sauce, bacon roll should really have had brown on it but I made do. [roughed it more than Mawbroon]

AuraofDora · 17/01/2009 13:05

lol GO
it's ages since i've heard pan loafy!
fab expression!

Highlander · 18/01/2009 13:50

we used to have stovies every week in the winter, with potted haugh - BARFTASTIC. Fortunately mum discovered corned beef when I was about 10.

ja9 · 18/01/2009 14:02

don't forget to have beetroot with them.

mawbroon · 18/01/2009 20:02

beetroot???

Well, I never.

That's a new one on me.

wheesht · 18/01/2009 20:03

There should be a stovies competition.

My mum would win.

GentleOtter · 18/01/2009 20:08

Yes mawbroon. The Scots are renowned for not being lovers of vegetables (much preferring the pudding after ) so beetroot with stovies and neeps with the haggis is the nearest we get to our five a day.

Right I'm showing off now but if you cook and cube the beetroot, add a very finely chopped onion then pour strawberry jelly over the two, then MY GOD SIR, you have a rare dish to go with your stovies.

mawbroon · 18/01/2009 20:11

Otter, I have never heard of that. Are you having me on?

Does this beetroot/onion/strawberry jelly combo have a name?

I could put it in my next cookbook

GentleOtter · 18/01/2009 20:16

No, honestly mawbroon. It is really lovely and my Grannie used to make it years ago.
I don't know the name for it but I an old lady in Brechin that I knew used to make it for her man's dinner too.

mawbroon · 18/01/2009 20:31

Brechin? Ah that explains it.

Do you mean jelly, as in like jelly and ice cream? Or jelly as in seedless jam, you know, like bramble jelly or cranberry jelly?

If it's like the jam then I can actually imagine that it would taste good, but if you mean jelly and ice cream type jelly then I would have to reserve judgement until I had tried it!!

TheTwaMacDugs · 18/01/2009 20:48

In the name o' the Wee Man it is a proper recipe
here (scroll down)

mawbroon · 18/01/2009 21:10

Jings

CuttySark · 18/01/2009 21:27

Ooh. that is a right fancy way of doing with the apple and vinegar in it. I use ordinary jelly - Chivers or whatever is handy.

CuttySark · 18/01/2009 21:29

(I've got my Burns night name up by the way)

fishie · 18/01/2009 21:36

crivens.

i have recently discovered that english people do not have mince at all. or only with potato on and made into a pie.

i am not scottish but my mum is.

mawbroon · 18/01/2009 21:36

OK, I am rubbish at keeping track of name changes unless they are really obvious!!

So, CuttySark, are you GentleOtter then? Confused

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