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Tattie Holidays

Posted in Scotland on October 11, 2009 | 12 Comments »

The “tattie holidays” are a week or fortnight long break for Scottish schools in mid-October so-called because they were the period of time that pupils that pupils left the classroom and went out in the fields to help pick the annual potato crop. There’s not much need for child tuber picking these days, as you can imagine, [...]

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Apple Crumble

Posted in Food, Recipes on October 6, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Saw this recipe on Orangette recently and thought “Ooooooooh, I haven’t had crumble for aaaages.” Plums are past their best up here already so I decided to use some of the many, many apples that are sitting in baskets outside my back door. Very glad I did too. This was the nicest crumble I’ve ever [...]

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