Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Volume 5Tuckwell Press, 2007 - Scotland |
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Page 137
... shortbread or gingerbread , which were much sweeter to the palate . The earliest reference I have found relates to Barrhead , Renfrewshire , when James Shaw , later to be a schoolmaster , was baptised in April 1828. The young woman who ...
... shortbread or gingerbread , which were much sweeter to the palate . The earliest reference I have found relates to Barrhead , Renfrewshire , when James Shaw , later to be a schoolmaster , was baptised in April 1828. The young woman who ...
Page 143
... shortbread , sometimes containing a ring and thimble , came to be used , though the same practice of snatching pieces for divination was followed.43 In some districts of north - east Scotland , however , as the sieve was being held over ...
... shortbread , sometimes containing a ring and thimble , came to be used , though the same practice of snatching pieces for divination was followed.43 In some districts of north - east Scotland , however , as the sieve was being held over ...
Page 409
... shortbread . It has a long history . It is mentioned in Older Scots in 1597. In 1608 , when the earl of Douglas and his family made an extended stay in Glasgow , they bought shortbread from a baker once , and flour to make it at another ...
... shortbread . It has a long history . It is mentioned in Older Scots in 1597. In 1608 , when the earl of Douglas and his family made an extended stay in Glasgow , they bought shortbread from a baker once , and flour to make it at another ...
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