Does anyone have any really authentic Irish and/ or Scottish recipes?

Answer 1

Haggis:

Grind up oats, sweetmeats, porky trimmings and lots of herbs, stuff them in a nice clean sheeps stomach, and boil in water until cooked. Serve steaming hot with "neeps" (turnip greens).

This is why they invented "Scotch" whiskey!

Here's a link to a "more exotic" haggis recipe...

Answer 2

"Irish recipes and Irish baking; full of traditional meals and dishes set out with easy to follow instructions."

Irish recipes for:
Apple Jelly, Barmbrack, Beef in Guinness, Boxty, Irish Breakfast, Champ, Dublin Coddle, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Gooseberry Crumble, Limerick Ham, Irish Coffee, Dublin Lawyer, Mutton, Broth, Irish Pancakes, Pea and Ham Soup, Porter Cake, Pot of Tea, Rhubarb Crumble, Baked Salmon, Brown Scones, Soda Bread, Blackberry Sorbet, Spiced Beef, Irish Stew, Potato Farl, Potato Soup, Dulse and Yellowman, Buttermilk Scones, Chocolate Cake, Lemon and Vanilla Curd Cake, Currant Squares, Flakemeal Crunchies, Kerry Apple Cake, Oatcakes, Potato Bread, Country Rhubarb Cake.

Scottish recipes for:
Scottish Pancakes, Scotch Broth, Stovies Haggis, Butterfly Cakes, Chocolate Cake, Scottish Shortbread, Aberdeen Rowies, Potato Scones, Oatcakes, Jam Roly Poly, Traditional Scottish Scones, Treacle Drop Scones, Cullen Skink (Scottish Soup),
Bacon Stovies, Abernethy Biscuits, Whiskey Cake, Finnan Haddy (fish dish), Pavlova, Haggis Balls, Forfar Bridies (mince bradies).

Answer 3

Grandpa McAndrew's Irish Soda Bread

"Original recipe yield: 1 loaf.
Prep Time:10 MinutesCook Time:45 MinutesReady In:55 MinutesServings:8 (change)

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INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 cup raisins
1 egg, beaten
1 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons margarine, melted

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a cast iron skillet.
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and sugar. Toss the raisins with the flour mixture until coated. Make a well in the center and add the egg, buttermilk, and melted margarine. Stir until all of the dry ingredients are absorbed. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead for a few quick turns just to even out the dough. Handle the dough as little as possible. Pat into a flat circle, and place into the prepared pan.
Bake the bread for 40 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are golden.

Answer 4

CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1781 - Common sustenance of Patriot and Loyalist alike are beans that must be boiled soft, thickened using Indian Meal (stone ground corn meal laced with rye flour in uncertain amounts), and a hand full of corn kernels, along with pork seasoning. A typical winter custom is hand pressing bean sludge around lengths of thick gut string and leaving it tied to freeze overnight while hung from tree limbs. The end product is then tied to outer clothing of experienced frontier travelers for repast on trail or water.

Answer 5

My favourite traditional Scottish dish is Clootie Dumpling - a delicious fruit pudding boiled in a cloth (or a "cloot" as the scots say). The link below has a good recipe for it.

Answer 6

Scottiish Shortbreqad

1 C butter, room temp.
½ C powdered sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. vanilla
pinch salt

Bake at 325ºF for approx. 15 mins or til golden brown. Yield: about 3 doz.

Answer 7

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