Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Recipes [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Sue Lawrence (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2000

From Arbroath fisherman's soup to Hebridean lamb with skirlie stuffing, Scottish cookery is famed for its honest, strong flavours and traditional, unpretentious ingredients. Here, haggis, neeps and tatties and cullen skink are just some of the 200 regional recipes collected here.

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'The recipes are splendidly clear' -- Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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From Arbroath fisherman's soup and stuffed Hebridean lamb to whiskey and honey ice cream, Scottish cuisine is famed for its honest flavors and the fine quality of its ingredients. In "Scots Cooking," author Sue Lawrence has collected 120 of the best recipes from her native land. Using only fresh ingredients, these time-honored recipes have been tested for the modern kitchen and are as delicious today as when they were first created. Introduced with engaging stories about the origins of each dish, and interspersed with Lawrence's memories of the tastes and flavors of her own Scottish upbringing, each recipe highlights methods and traditions that have been handed down through generations. True Scots--and indeed anyone who is interested in the best of Scottish regional cooking--will find something "affa fine" in these pages.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Headline Hardbacks (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747271259
• ISBN-13: 978-0747271253
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,224,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Scottish Cookery Book, November 1, 2001

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Sophie Owen (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Recipes (Hardcover)

Finally a book that successfully combines contemperory with the traditional.The recipes are beautifully presented with spectacular colour photographs. Unlike some cookery writer's books the recipes are usable for every day life covering such topics as breakfast, meats and baking. Being Scottish myself I know that this book genuinely reflects Scottish cooking and I love the way the author combines the recipes with anecdotes making the book not only a good cooking book but also a good read. I would highly suggest that everybody should buy this book as the recipes are the best things that have come out of Scotland since Sean Connery.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Food!, June 7, 2005

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S. L. Campbell (Fairmont, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Recipes (Hardcover)

If you like Scottish food, sweets in particular, this book is for you! We have made virtually all of the baking and sweet recipes in this book, and they are all delicious. Do you like Tiramisu? I did not think anything could top that, but then I tried the recipe in this book for Cranachan -- oh, my! Who'd of thought that cream and raspberries and honey could mix with some other delightful things and be so incredible?

The breakfast pancakes, with lime juice flavored golden syrup as a topping -- amazing! Real maple syrup pales in comparison. And fresh from the oven Baps and eggs for breakfast -- yum!

You'll need to buy some Lyle's Golden Syrup and some Lyle's Black Treacle for most of the baking recipes, but it is SO worth it!

We've only made one meal recipe, to date, which is the Scotch Broth. For soup/stew lovers, this one is a hearty bunch of comfort food. Eaten with some warm, crusty wheat rolls, on a cold winter's evening, you are definitly feeling some endorphins flowing!

Buy the book! :)

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Over a hundred of the best traditional Scottish recipes, April 4, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Recipes (Paperback)

Over a hundred of the best traditional Scottish recipes have been collected for Scots Cooking by Scottish author Sue Lawrence from her home country, and uses the fresh and diverse local ingredients for which Scotland is so famous. Anticipate many dishes holding seafood and meats, and presenting flavor combinations not to be found in other cookbooks; such as the Orkney dish Clapshot.