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TATTIES
For two weeks each October children
in Highland schools are set free from their classrooms to enjoy the
"tattie holidays", when the potatoes used to be harvested,
commonly called "tattie howking", from the fields.
These days few pupils will end up pulling spuds from the earth,
but the name still lives on.
According to the Scottish Agricultural College, 23,350 hectares of
Scotland were covered in potatoes in 2005, with another 11,446 hectares
being used to grow seed potatoes. Seed potatoes are small
potatoes that have at least one "eye" from which a new potato
plant can grow.
The bScottish Crop Research Institute, near Dundee, is
involved in developing new forms of potatoes, which are more resistant
to diseases.
TATTIE SCONE.
The
TATTIE SCONE is a staple part of the full Scottish breakfast, appearing
on plats alongside such other morning favourites as sausage,bacon,
fried egg and black pudding. But is it really a scone? Some say the
circular savoury snacks - which are normally served as quarters - are
too thin to be related to the traditional high tea treats.
The versatile Potato scone -
which can be served with butter and jam and eaten as it is, or heated
in the frying pan - is said to closely resemble a girdle scone and is
similar to the Irish potato bread.
Tattie scones are made from
floury potatoes, which have been boiled and then mashed with a generous
helping of butter and seasoning. When the mash has cooled, flour and a
little more butter is added to make a dough. This is then rolled out
into a circle and cut into four pieces before being fried in butter for
a couple of minutes on each side. eat when ready, or keep for eating
later.
TRAPRAIN LAW
East Lothian
Traprain
Law is a rather mundane lump of rock which stands 221 metres in height
and is fairly prominent in the county of East Lothian. It has been
extensively quarried in the past for road metal. It was formed about
320 million years ago and it can be described as a LACCOLITH, which is
the result of when MAGNA pushes upwards to reach the surface, but
instead of forming a volcano it pushes up the rock above it to form a
musroom shape with a flat domed top.
The MACMA hardened and we have the hill we know today
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