YUM!!! Blueberry muffins. That reminds me that I made Blueberry Oatmeal Clafoutis this morning, great way to start the day. Makes a 9 x 13 dish and will last several days or you can cut into squares and freeze. Pop a square in the microwave and drizzle with maple or agave syrup. That's it, my spools are officially named Blueberry Oatmeal Clafoutis.
Gee, those truffles sound good too.
Lori

My heavens there are a lot of posts since I looked in yesterday! Let's see, 1) I am on the team which doesn't cook generally, only do it to keep my family from starving 2) although I live in the Midwestern United States, I thoroughly enjoyed the local Burns Supper on this past Saturday. And I not only ate the Haggis but I enjoyed it! My husband was born in England of parents born and raised in Scotland so bagpipes and all thing Scottish have been part of my life since I was 15. 3) I picked up the customs forms and the flat rate envelope from the post office today as well as a new cartridge for the printer so I can printout labels to sew on my reels and will get them off to Lorna in the next day or so. I'll sent Lorna and Rosemary an email when I do. 4) i cant speak or understand any other languages like French or Spanish but growing up in the midwest, spending lots of time with Scots, Brits, Irish and Aussies because of my husband's family and their close friends, then living in Georgia for 15 years, I am fairly fluent in a wide variety of "English" variations!

This is such a lively and fun group!

Dear Lori;

How about “Truffles” as in American chocolate truffles, not mushroom truffles? Is that correct. . .anyone. . anyone??

Blueberry muffins?

Thank you all for the interesting explanation to my inquiry about the haggis and Burns Night. I did watch that you tube video about the haggis and now I know what they were talking about. Will have to look at some of the links listed.
My spools will be in the mail end of this week. They are light blue with some brown, but after a glass or two of wine they begin to look slightly light purple. Not sure what to name them.
Lori

I love to bake!! But it normally involves chocolate because my whole family is addicted.. So the purple reels and a recipe to match is a challenge. I'm also famous for ice cream cakes and cheesecake - but none of them are purple either! Soo purple macaroons are going to be in my oven shortly just to be sure the recipe works! Lol! I'm loving the English/Scottish interchange. My FIL was Scottish so a lot of this is familiar. And us Aussies definitely have the strong English background! And I mash all those root vegetables too!!

Spools are going in the mail today. Will post photos later.

"Rosemary, Did you also know that the Haggis has one leg shorter than the other so it makes it easier to run round the Scottish hills and mountains. It is definitely a round animal with a pig like snout."

Hic! Oops!

Rosemary
I agree wholeheartedly. Please pass the Malt when you have finished mashing the neeps.

scottishquilter wrote:
I'd forgotten about the legs

As for turnips/swedes, what I call a turnip has white flesh, whilst a swede is yellow coloured, but they are both round root vetegables, so lets just boil them up & mash them with lots of butter & seasoning.

The other major necessity is definitly whisky - lots of it!

crocus999 wrote:
Terri, even though Rosemary and I live in the UK and both speak the Queens English, sometimes we say different words for the same thing. It all depends on what part of the British Isles we live in. UK are in metric now and have been for a while. That is hard on my generation as I still think in Imperial measure and in Pounds, shillings and pence.

romira wrote:
Roseanne, although I said I was giving my reels a Scottish flavour (British spelling) and called them Clootie Dumpling - the colours in the reels are actually the colours in the Clootie Dumpling before and after cooking.

PosyP wrote:
Rosemary, Did you also know that the Haggis has one leg shorter than the other so it makes it easier to run round the Scottish hills and mountains. It is definitely a round animal with a pig like snout.

Up here in Scotland we call the round root vegetable a Turnip, the English call them Swede!!!

When I visited the UK a decade ago, I kept a travel journal, and in the back of it, I kept a glossary of British English words compared to Canadian English words. The glossary was almost as long as the journal itself! It was hilarious! You'd think you were speaking the same English, but, nope. Then I went to the Southern US ( Georgia etc. now, There's a different class of English - harder to understand than the Brits -

as long as a 1/4 inch = 1/4 inch wherever you are, at least for quilting then we don't have to worry about understanding each other. But, here in Canada, we use cm. (centimetres, so we're translating all the time) What measurement are we going to use for the cookbook?

What's a swede/neaps?

PS - I'm an English teacher LOL

Rosemary I see you beat me to it