Help me, Scottish MNers!: Stovies

[Penthesileia]

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!

Yes, tis me.
There is a whole load of folk changing their names for Burns night and they are asking Tech for tartan bunnet emoticons.

Crivvens, help ma boab. There'are.

Yes, i saw that thread. I couldn't think of anything witty and Burns related. I guess I am scottish enough.

at nae mince!!

Burns Night thread

I think I knew that about nae mince doon sooth.

I wonder where the cut off line is?

We do our Stovies with Sausages here too, just west of Glasgow.

Jbck, was that wedding reception with the mini scotch pies and bacon rolls at Glenskirlie house by any chance?

Berwick, surely, mawbroon?!

One of my favourite jokes:

What's brown and quacks?

Donald Mince!

You've lost me there pushchair. You will have to explain....

Hmm. Was a chippy in Aberdeen that used to do amazing stovies and oat cakes.........yum

Eh well yellow and quacks would be donald duck so brown...... I know it's crap but even more perplexing to english folk who are prone to saying 'mints?'

Am I 32 years too old for that joke? I still don't get it.

So how about those weird recipe books where stovies are just potatoes cooked in dripping. Anyone still cook that?

Reminds me that on first coming down south I went into a bakers and asked for a roll. after some confusion the woman behind the counter said with great scorn 'oh you mean a BAP!'

at joke

x-post!

I think the tattie in dripping thing is the real thing actually. Anything other than that must be posh stovies I think.

Aw pushchair!
What vegetable makes your eyes water?

A whack in the baws wi a neep!

Lovely thread.

I was not born in Scotland, but my grandparents were and I've live three quarters of my life here so feel fairly qualified:

Anyhoo, my exMIL made stovies with the left over mince and beef olives from the night before. There'd be onions and tatties of course.

With cloutie dumpling, crisped by the fire, to follow....

Pickled Beetroot on the side of the Stovies is to die for.

If we poor we'll make 'stovies' with tatties and corned beef, onions and I'll have tomato sauce with mine please.

If we richer then it should be made with the left over beef from the night before. can't believe I forgot to do that with the last roast I did......

Ye canny beat Stovies!

Klaw....

I'll add that there is nothing tastier than overdays broth..
When we were younger, Mum used to fry up slabs of clootie dumpling with black pudding and bacon for breakfast which you ate with a warm buttery. It was just lovely.

I bought 3 packs of butteries last time I was up in Edinburgh. Unfortunately my friend's dog ate one pack but I had the rest with butter and jam.

Can't eat black pudding but. [boak]

Oh but black pudding is sooooooo delicious. [yum]

Serious black pudding news

And while I'm at it, has anyone had a mealy pudding recently? I have not seen them for ages but you used to pop them in the mince when it was cooking.
That and some doughballs.