"Charles Gifford" > wrote:

>Many, many whatevers. It is a wonderful area for speculation and
>understanding. One of the least understood, much less accepted, is the
>influence of the Irish (and to a lesser extent Scottish) influence on the
>general European diet through the spread of Irish Holy men.
>
>> My
>> favorite movie of all time is Brigadoon. I gues I'm just an old
>> fantasy-driven softee. Lord, that's scary.
>
>Brigadoon is not to be slighted! It is magical, loving, sweet, life
>changing, and idylic. I think it represents the best of mankind. If you are
>a softee by this criterion, I am liquid.
>
>Charlie
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>> The Doc says my brain waves closely match those of a crazed ferret.
>> At least now I have an excuse.
>
>
OK Charlie, you're obviously from the region so I have to ask. One
common thread throughout the trilogy of novels I read was first, of
course, the smell of a peat fire. Secondly, was the constant plate of
oatcakes. I searched and found about a hundred recipes for them, some
the soft pancake-style which these didn't seem to refer to and a bunch
of the "scone" style oatcakes. Not having any oat flour avaiable, I
pulsed some plain old "rolled oats" style american oatmeal in the
blender and used that. I put sugar in mine, but it just didn't seem
authentic. Do ya have a typical oatcake recipe that a stodgy old
Scottish man of about 90 years old would be cookin?

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The Doc says my brain waves closely match those of a crazed ferret.
At least now I have an excuse.