Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Volume 5Tuckwell Press, 2007 - Scotland |
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Page 138
... piece ' , as recently as 1984. " This was also true of northern England , where a parcel containing spice cake , or loaf , with cheese and a packet of salt , was given to the first man met if the baby was a girl and to the first woman ...
... piece ' , as recently as 1984. " This was also true of northern England , where a parcel containing spice cake , or loaf , with cheese and a packet of salt , was given to the first man met if the baby was a girl and to the first woman ...
Page 142
... piece before it reached the ground . It was an oat bannock , baked with butter , ' but despite its plainness , the smallest particle was supposed to carry a charm ' . The pieces rescued were taken home , and put under the pillow , in ...
... piece before it reached the ground . It was an oat bannock , baked with butter , ' but despite its plainness , the smallest particle was supposed to carry a charm ' . The pieces rescued were taken home , and put under the pillow , in ...
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... piece ' might be carried , consisting often of oatcakes and cheese and in more recent times of sandwiches consisting of slices of bread spread with butter , jam , syrup , treacle , etc. The carrying of a piece by ploughmen or other farm ...
... piece ' might be carried , consisting often of oatcakes and cheese and in more recent times of sandwiches consisting of slices of bread spread with butter , jam , syrup , treacle , etc. The carrying of a piece by ploughmen or other farm ...
Contents
General | 3 |
The Cultural Study of Food | 11 |
Aspects of the Prehistoric Diet | 25 |
Copyright | |
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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