Scottish Holiday/Event Recipes

"A must-have around the holidays, but nice to make all year round."

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Ingredients: dried cranberries, eggs...

"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...

"A Recipe -Self created using a superb grilling fish(Scottish Salmon) with delicate spicing."

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Ingredients: garlic, ginger, olive oil...

"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 should be called Mum's quick pickled cucumber and onion, as this is what she made EVERY Sunday afternoon for tea-time! We always had this alongside fresh bread and butter, boiled eggs, cold cuts of meat, fruit cake, scones, sometimes a tin of red salmon and always a pot of tea! Wonderful memories, and an easy and tasty pickle for tea-time food...."

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Ingredients: cucumbers, malt vinegar, mint...

"This is my grandmother's recipe which I have adapted slightly - my Mum also makes this regularly! There is no fat, butter or oil in this lovely, moist Tea Bread, making it a treat that can be enjoyed on a regular basis. Feel free to use your favourite tea, I often make this with Earl Grey and Lapsang Souchong. Also make sure that the fruit soaks for..."

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Ingredients: currants, demerara sugar, eggs...

"Ahhhh... high school memories! One certain Mr. Brown was my maths teacher and had a great sense of humour. Which was just as well. You see, it was during his tenure at Lanark Grammar School that a British baking company (sorry, I've forgotten their name) introduced their delicious malty brown bread which they marketed under the brand name "Hovis"..."

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Ingredients: golden syrup, malt drink powder...

"The name of this dish is due to the sounds that are emitted during cooking, the cabbage bubbles as it is boiled and then squeaks in the frying pan. NOTE: This classic British dish originally contained beef along with the leftover cooked potatoes and cabbage, though today people don't generally bother with the meat."

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Ingredients: bacon fat, lamb, onions...

"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...