Scottish Dinner Party Recipes

"I have a meat and potatoes guy who could live on potatoes and gravy. This is how I make it healthier and lower in fat!"

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Ingredients: potatoes, salt and pepper...

"Fish and chips is one of Britain's favourite and most famous take-aways, often accompanied with Chip Shop Curry Sauce. Here is a simple recipe to have that unique melt-in-your-mouth fried fish at home."

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Ingredients: deep fat, eggs, lemon wedges...

"While attending Edinburgh University years ago, I had a flatmate from the Orkney Islans. He cooked this stuff fairly often because it was dirt cheap to make. Now I cook it because most new dinner guests have never even heard of it, never mind eaten it."

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Ingredients: chives, milk, onions...

"I just love this! I do not like gin so this is MY perfect martini! Vodka and olives! yum! Shaken NOT stirred just like England's James Bond prefers!"

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Ingredients: vodka, olives...

"This is a British cousin of American lemonade. Makes an excellent mixer for gin, vodka, and tequila. Personally, I like it mixed with tonic water or soda water and poured over crushed ice on a hot summer day."

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Ingredients: lemons, sugar, water...

"The name of this rich, tasty soup comes from the fishing village of Cullen, in Morayshire in Northern Scotland. "Skink" is a soup made originally from a shin of beef - in fact the word "skink" means soup or stew - but in this case, the main ingredient is smoked haddock with potatoes and onions. Finnan haddock is often called Finnan..."

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Ingredients: toast points, smoked haddock...

"Quick, easy, elegant sauce to accompany most lamb dishes."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, fresh mint...

"Patience is a virtue, and (trust me) this stuff is WELL worth the wait!"

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Ingredients: dried apricots, eggs...

"Healthy, cheap, and delicious desert."

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Ingredients: dry white wine, granny smith apples...

"I haven't had traditional ginger wine, but I decided to make a sort of infused ginger wine of my own, and the below is what I came up with. I tried it tonight, and YUM! :) Traditional ginger wine, produced before the holidays from scratch, is popular in some parts of England and Scotland. While this version isn't exactly traditional, this is a tasty..."

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Ingredients: cognac, fresh ginger...

"Be careful when preparing fresh raw beetroots for cooking - if the skin is damaged the colour will 'bleed' during baking. For the same reason, do not prod them with a fork to see if they are done, but instead test whether the skin slides off easily."

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Ingredients: raw beets, sour cream, butter...