The Lallybroch Cocktail
Ingredients 30 ml Single Malt Whisky30 ml Cointreau2 tsp Aperol75 ml Champagne Mix whisky, Cointreau and Aperol in a cocktail shaker then pour into champagne flutes. Top with champagne and garnish with orange
Rumbledethumps
Ingredients Recipe from thespruceeats.comServes 6 600 g potatoes peeled, boiled and mashed400 g turnip peeled, boiled and mashed75 g butter250 g Savoy cabbage25 g Cheddar cheese salt & pepper • Preheat oven to 180C • Place the mashed potato and turnip into a large mixing bowl and put to one side • Melt 50 g […]
Cranachan with a Wee Twist
Ingredients Serves 4-6 Recipe from The Incredible Spice Men by Cyrus Todiwala and Tony Singh • (1½ oz) medium or coarse oatmeal • 200 g (7 oz) raspberries • 400 ml (14 fl oz) double cream • 1½ tbsp cardamom honey (below), or to taste • 2¼ tbsp malt whisky • ½–1 tsp rose water, […]
Ecclefechan Tart
Ingredients Serves 8-12 For the pastry: 250g plain flour 125g unsalted butter Vanilla salt 50ml whisky For the filling: 150g unsalted butter 150g light brown sugar 3 eggs 150ml double cream 1 tablespoon black treacle 300g mixed dried fruit 1 teaspoon finely chopped stem ginger 1 lemon 1 orange To serve: Ginger Cream 150ml double […]
A Journey Around Scotland Book Review
Corrag Susan Fletcher I’m currently reading this book which begins with the Massacre of Glencoe on 13th February 1692, when members of the McDonald clan were slaughtered for their loyalty to the exiled King James II. Fifty miles south in Inveraray, Corrag is falsely imprisoned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is accused of […]
A Journey Around Scotland
A Journey Around Scotland An outlandish tale of Freedom and Whisky, oh and my own Highland ghost! I have Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side, so my appreciation for men in kilts is genetic. My actual experience of Scotland however consists of fish and chips in Stranraer before catching the ferry to Ireland every summer; […]
