Here is a tasty, tangy cake which is best made with pure juices of the citrus fruit. Cake Ingredients: 8oz (250g or one stick) margarine 8oz (250g or one and a quarter cups) caster sugar (or fine granulated sugar) 12oz (350g or three cups) self-raising flour (all-purpose flour with baking powder) 4 eggs 1...
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Traditional Scottish Recipes – Chocolate Velvet Cream Pie
This recipe is from Claire Macdonald who has written many cookery books and runs the cookery school at Kinloch Lodge. This pie has a base not of pastry but of crushed chocolate digestive biscuits (Graham crackers), mixed with melted butter. The filling contains cream cheese, and is smooth and silky in texture. Ingredients (serves...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Chocolate, Orange and Whisky Mousse
The quantities given below are sufficient for six servings. Ingredients (Mousse): 8 ounces (250g) plain chocolate which has been broken into smaller pieces. 4 large eggs – separated into whites and yolks. 2 tablespoons Scotch whisky. Note that US tablespoons are smaller than those in the UK so you may want to adjust this...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Chicken in the Heather
Here is a simple recipe using clear heather honey and other flavours to create a tasty roast chicken dish. While heather honey is the best, other clear honey will suffice. Ingredients: One whole chicken, minus giblets 3 fluid ounces (90ml or under half a cup) light cooking oil 4 fluid ounces (125g or half...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Chicken Bonnie Prince Charlie
The recipe for Drambuie (which gives this dish its flavour) is said to have been given to members of the MacKinnon clan in gratitude for their help after Culloden. The honey-sweet golden drink is enjoyed by millions around the world – and adds flavour to many recipes. Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts, skinned and boned...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Cauliflower Cheese and Whisky
Cheese was often made in individual farmhouses and was combined with cauliflowers grown either in the fields or in the kitchen garden. Adding a few ounces of whisky adds an extra flavour to this popular dish. Ingredients: One medium cauliflower 6 ounces (185g) finely chopped mushrooms Half of a finely chopped green pepper Half...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Carrot and Orange Soup
You could always open a can of carrot and orange soup but it would not taste nearly as good as this freshly made variety! And of course you can adjust the ingredients to get exactly the flavour you want. Ingredients: 1 chopped onion 1lb/450 grams sliced carrots 2 ozs (65 grams or ½ stick)...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Carrot Cake
Carrot cake is often found wherever "home baking" is advertised and there are many variations on the recipe. The ingredients below will make two, one pound cakes. Ingredients: 8 oz (2 cups) wholemeal flour 8 oz (2 cups) brown sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt Half a cup melted...
Traditional Scottish Recipes – Caledonian Cream
Here is a refreshing dessert which uses marmalade, a popular ingredient in Scottish cooking since its invention in Dundee in 1797. Ingredients for the cream: 4oz cream cheese (about half a cup) 4 fluid ounces double cream (about half a cup) 1 tablespoon marmalade (thick, bitter marmalade is suggested but use what you have)...
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