This week marks Shrove Tuesday, which is also known amongst many as Pancake Day. With people all over Scotland and beyond fishing out their frying pans and trying to remember how to make pancakes, you ...

”Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale,” Robert Burns wrote in the late 18th Century. His fellow countrymen may have agreed with that sentiment, but they also ate theirs with eggs, ...

IN terms of heritage, the Celtic nations have much in common to celebrate, and not the least is a round, unleavened piece of dough, the size of a meat plate, which is mixed with sugar and dried fruit, ...

I don’t know what I was thinking. I promised my 13-year-old daughter that a big part of our trip to Scotland would be visiting tearooms and sampling the baked goods. Then, I said, we’d get the recipes ...

The humble shortbread, the homely tattie scone and teeth-shattering tablet may not rank high in the pantheon of great cuisine but the principles and traditions of Scottish baking continue to shape ...

In his third cookbook, Coinneach MacLeod (a.k.a. the Hebridean Baker) shares recipes for nostalgic Scottish treats and stories of Hebridean culture, folklore and history You can save this article by ...

Some Scottish dishes aren't for the faint of heart (ever tried haggis?), but Scotland's traditional cuisine is having a moment as fans of the "Outlander" novels and new Starz series take to their ...