Recipes From Cuisine: Scottish
Rhubarb and Custard Tart
Rhubarb and Custard Tart Ingredients Sweet shortcrust pastry, bought or ready made. 1 pint of Custard made up nice and thick. I used Birds custard powder and added a little extra powder to make it a bit thicker than usual. Rhubarb Jam. I make my own but bought is also ...
Read moreSoda Scones (Farls)/Treacle Soda Scones
Farl just means a circle cut into 4 quarters. Ingredients: 8oz self raising flour 1/2 level teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 150ml (5fl oz) buttermilk (or milk soured with the juice of half a lemon) Pinch of salt Optional (Treacle Scones) Add 1 tablespoon treacle (mix with the ...
Read moreStrawberry Tarts
It’s a long story, I wanted to try making some Strawberry tarts. Had the strawberries, picked up some cream and a packet of pastry at the shops and I’ll drop into that well known garden centre on the way home, the one that’s a little goblin pal of Harry Potter. They have ...
Read moreFruit Cake
Ingredients 450grm mixed dried fruit half a packet of broken walnuts (or any nuts half a tub of glace cherries (cut in half) 350grm of plain flour or self raising flour 1tsp of baking powder if using plain flour pinch of salt generous teaspoon of mixed spice 225grm stork/butter/any cooking ...
Read moreCranachan
Cranachan Ingredients 75g oats 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp whisky 250g raspberries 350ml double cream (I used 274ml of double cream and made up difference with philedelphia cheese) Instructions Firstly, toast the oats. You can do this in a pan on the stovetop or in the oven. Put the oats ...
Read moreMicrowave Dumpling
I’m under fear of death if I post my mothers Dumpling Recipe but I do have a microwave version. Of course, it’s not got the Clootie Dumpling outside skin …. which is the best bit…… but it doesn’t take 3 hours of boiling. Ingredients 8oz plain flour 6oz sugar Two eggs, ...
Read moreRice pudding
Butter a pyrex dish Pudding rice about a mug full 1pt milk 3 tbsp sugar (I used granulated) Oven 160/140 fan Add ingredients to dish, stir and bang in the oven. Leave for 1 – 1 1/2hrs to do its thing. Take out and enjoy ? Yes, you can do ...
Read moreMars Bar Cake
Multipack mars bars (9 x 33g) 3 tbsp golden syrup 75g butter 400g milk chocolate (100g bars x 4) Approx 2/3 box of rice krispies (225g) Lined deep tray/dish Over a pot of simmering water put a bowl and add the mars bars, butter and golden syrup. Stir until melted. ...
Read moreRuffle Bar Bites
200g desiccated coconut 2 sachets Hartley powdered raspberry jelly 70g icing sugar 160g condensed milk ( approx ) 300g chocolate, we used 50/50 dark and milk Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl Add condensed milk to consistency, not too wet Roll into any shape, we did wee baws Should ...
Read moreDrambuie Ice Cream
Ingredients: 125g caster sugar 6 tablespoons water 6 egg yolks Use the egg yolks for making some meringues or a pavlova. 210ml double cream, lightly whipped 3 tablespoons Drambuie Method: Bring the water and sugar to the boil in a small pan and then set aside. In a Bain-Marie…. a glass ...
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