Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Volume 5Tuckwell Press, 2007 - Scotland |
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Page 165
... HOGMANAY , NEW YEAR'S DAY They knocked at the door and recited : feathers , Rise up aal wife an shak yer Dinna think at we are beggars We're only bairnies come tae play , Rise up an gie's wir Hogmanay Wir feet's caal , wir sheen's thin ...
... HOGMANAY , NEW YEAR'S DAY They knocked at the door and recited : feathers , Rise up aal wife an shak yer Dinna think at we are beggars We're only bairnies come tae play , Rise up an gie's wir Hogmanay Wir feet's caal , wir sheen's thin ...
Page 166
... hogmanay ' , and before the days of gifts of money or fruit ( as now ) , they might get a ' hogmanay cake ' or ' noor - cake ' , i.e. New Year cake , an oatcake or biscuit made especially for this purpose . A somewhat patronising ...
... hogmanay ' , and before the days of gifts of money or fruit ( as now ) , they might get a ' hogmanay cake ' or ' noor - cake ' , i.e. New Year cake , an oatcake or biscuit made especially for this purpose . A somewhat patronising ...
Page 195
... Hogmanay Night was seen as an act of charity . Hallowe'en guisers in Shetland made a feast of what they had collected and gave the remnants to the poor . Young folk had their high times , too . On Sowens Nicht they enjoyed their group ...
... Hogmanay Night was seen as an act of charity . Hallowe'en guisers in Shetland made a feast of what they had collected and gave the remnants to the poor . Young folk had their high times , too . On Sowens Nicht they enjoyed their group ...
Contents
General | 3 |
The Cultural Study of Food | 11 |
Aspects of the Prehistoric Diet | 25 |
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Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Agriculture amongst Angus areas bacon baked bannock barley beef Beltane Berwickshire boiled breakfast brose broth Burgh butter Caithness cake cereal cheese churn coalfish coffee Cookery Book cooking cream crops diet dinner dish DOST s.v. drink Dumfriesshire early eaten eating Edinburgh eggs eighteenth century example farm farmers feast Fenton fire fish flesh flour fresh Gaelic girdle Glasgow Gregor harvest hearth Highland Hogmanay household Isles kail Kincardineshire kitchen London Lowland meal meat milk mutton nineteenth century north-east oatcakes oatmeal oats Orkney parish peas peasemeal period Perthshire piece pork porridge potato lifting PSAS puddings rabbit recipe book roast Ross and Cromarty salt scones Scotland Scots Scottish season seventeenth Shetland shortbread slice SND s.v. social levels soup sowens stone sugar supper SWRI taste towns turnips twentieth century venison wheaten bread whey whisky wine