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What are your favorite sites for Scottish recipes and cooking ideas? We've found a few!
We have a well-stocked cookbook library, sure, but we also love poking around on different recipe sites and cooking blogs to see what people are fixing up in their Scottish kitchens.
Black bun is often served at New Year, but you don't need to wait for a holiday
Black bun is a dense and rich fruit cake, stuffed with currants and raisins. Black bun was sometimes called Scotch bun. Technically it's not a cake, since it's basically just fruit filling encased in a pastry shell. And, like a Christmas cake, black bun is best when it is made a few weeks in advance and allowed to "mature." The concentrated density of black bun -- a little goes a long way! -- might have something to do with its traditional role as an accompaniment of the ritual known as "First Footing,"
Arbroath Smokies - Sweet, Tender, Smoky Goodness
Arbroath smokies are made with small haddocks, cleaned, salted, tied in twos by the tail and smoked to a deep copper color.
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