TATTIE SCONES

[wini]

I made the tattie Scones and they were great.
I haven't tried the Irish version yet Joette but that is next on my list.

Yer very helpful Davie. Pity thon wee Brissie is 1700kms away.
It's a bit expensive gettin them from there.
Nae sense o the big wide spaces youse folk

wini

[djcrtoye]

Reading this topic made my think of one my favourite lunch tattie scone with square sausage on a roll. As far as I know you can only get square sausage in Scotland.

[emanday]

Reading this topic made my think of one my favourite lunch tattie scone with square sausage on a roll. As far as I know you can only get square sausage in Scotland.

Don't know where you are, but they are now stocked in most of the English supermarkets. For my first few years in England I used to have to buy a load of stuff like that during visits home and stock my freezer. (We only bought the freezer for this purpose )

My shopping list was usually; Tattie scones, Square sausage, Ayrshire bacon, Crumpets, Irn Bru, Plain loaf, REAL Kippers plus too many more to mention - all bought in bulk

Still can't get a Plain loaf or Crumpets (the Scottish version) anywhere here, but I live in hope

[Jean Jeanie]

Hi Mary

I can get plain bread in Tesco!

Jean

[emanday]

Hi Mary

I can get plain bread in Tesco!

Jean

Right then - If Bristol Tesco's don't have it I'll be screaming "discrimination"

[Jean Jeanie]

Go for it girl

Jean

[Davie]

Nae sense o the big wide spaces youse folk

Whit ur ye oan aboot Lass?
Ah know aw aboot the bush, gawn walkboot and the wilderness, ah wiz in Lochwinoch oan Wednesday.
Ma niece is in real boomerang territory and somewan in her restaurant makes colcannon.

Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?
With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.
Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake
Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?

CHORUS
Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I.
And the more I think about it sure the nearer I'm to cry.
Oh, wasn't it the happy days when troubles we had not,
And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.

Did you ever take potato cake in a basket to the school,
Tucked underneath your arm with your book, your slate and rule?
And when the teacher wasn't looking sure a great big bite you'd take,
Of the creamy flavoured buttered soft and sweet potato cake.

Did you ever go a-courting as the evening sun went down,
And the moon began a-peeping from behind the Hill o'Down?
As you wandered down the boreen where the leprechaun was seen,
And you whispered loving phrases to your little fair colleen


Mind you, her Da’s frae Dublin!

Davie

[donna petrie]

HI: I saw the post mentioning square sausage. I posted on the topic Irn Bru about food I had to bring back to Canada from Scotland.

Before the meat restrictions I used to bring back square sausage, black pudding, sausage rolls, that square Scottish Pride bread to eat with it, Scottish butter and Grant's tinned haggis. Oh how we miss those days. Now when we go for a holiday we have to eat up these forbidden things- although I have taken to eating less meat. There is a tiny shop on near Glasgow Cathedral that sells the best sausage rolls I have ever had. Donna

[StewL]

We can get square sausage here in West Oz from our local IGA though you have to be quick sometimes.

I got this recipe from a Scottish site but havent yet tried it to see if it is the same.

Sliced Sausage

Ingredients:
2 lbs Ground/minced Beef
2 lbs Ground Pork
3 Cups Fine Bread Crumbs
2 tsp Pepper
2 tsp Nutmeg
3 tsp Coriander
3 tsp Salt
1 Cup of water.
Method:
The beef and pork should not be too lean or the sausage may be too dry.
Mix really well by hand then place in an oblong pan about 10" x 4" x 3". You might need two pans. Place in the freezer for a little while till it's just starting to set. Remove it and cut them to the thickness you like and put them into freezer bags and put them back in the freezer. When required, defrost and fry in a little fat or oil until brown and cooked through.

Hope it is the same