Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: WG. on February 21, 2007, 19:50
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Clapshot
Take turnip, slice, cut roughly and boil for 5 minutes or so. Add an equal amount, by weight, of peeled potatoes (your favourite mashing variety) to the same pot. Boil until ready, then drain and mash thoroughly together with a knob of butter and season to taste.
Serve with grilled sausages, bacon or stewed mince or - as we had tonight - a really good butcher's haggis and some oatcakes. Really tasty.
The potato/turnip mixture is called clapshot (nothing to do with the injections given to sailors Munty). For some reason, it tastes totally different to mixing them up after they are cooked. Leftovers can be made into a delicious creamed soup.
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thats bad dave its ash wednesday today :wink:
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thats bad dave its ash wednesday today
I have much to learn about life south of the Highland Boundary Fault and, as Vikings only recently converted to Christianity, you will have to explain to me the extent of my faux pas.
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it goes somthing like this
yesterday you filled your face full of pancakes and today you dont eat meat,i had pancakes yesterday.
but today i had a bacon butty for breakfast and steak n chips for tea .
so i'm half way there i suppose :wink:
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I'm safe enough - there is very little meat in haggis.
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you will be saved just this once dave i will get the wife to say a prayer on your behalf and i'm sure you will be forgiven :lol:
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Thank you, kind sir. For my part, I will pay homage to Odin in your name.
[Tenuous link here ... Ash Wednesday ... Odins Day ... Viking God. I'd have hated for it to go un-noticed :D :D ]
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When we have haggis I do clapshot and mix in some stir fried cabbage
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When we have haggis I do clapshot and mix in some stir fried cabbage
regular white cabbage mixed into clapshot or mixed into haggis? Sounds interesting, I'll need to try that.
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usually savoy mixed in with the clapshot, we don't have haggis very often though as I have to order from Scotland to get a good one, we don't like the ones they sell in the supermarkets.
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sounds like neeps n tatties to me lol
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sounds like neeps n tatties to me
Not dis-similar granted but not the same :D
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usually savoy mixed in with the clapshot, we don't have haggis very often though as I have to order from Scotland to get a good one, we don't like the ones they sell in the supermarkets.
I'll try your Savoy addition. I'll also PM you a phone # for a butcher in Fochabers. Best haggis I know and made by a German!
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Whisky-golf,
do you live in Orkney? I was in Kirkwall for a wedding last July, wonderful weather.
Pamela (in Spain)
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Whisky-golf,
do you live in Orkney? I was in Kirkwall for a wedding last July, wonderful weather.
Pamela (in Spain)
I was born and raised in St Mary's (6 miles south of Kirkwall). I live half-way between Aberdeen and Inverness now.
Orkney is a wonderful place although that is usually despite the weather rather than because of it!! Here is an Orkney collage for you. No less than three separate Unesco World Heritage sites!!
(http://www.farexchange.com/Xchange/tourimages/orkneycollage.jpg)
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Lovely pictures WG :!:
... It's just a grand job we can'a feel the icy blast o' the wind :wink:
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Lovely pictures WG :!:
... It's just a grand job we can'a feel the icy blast o' the wind :wink:
Thanks
You gotta feel sorry for the trees (yes, there are a few). They get as high as the top of the dyke & then start to grow horizontally instead (thinks: espalier training should be easy).
I remember, as a kid, being confined to the house for days on end when it was simply too windy to go outside. Wotsisname in Shetland will tell you all about that!
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WG I used to spend many a holiday in Bettyhill , north of you I know ,loved it up there!
Anyway,my question is do you or anyone else know a recipe for stovies , would like to cook it but forget exactly how to, it uses sliced potatoes and onions and is baked in the oven, what stock shall I use or fat? and do I precook the potatoes or put them in raw.
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WG I used to spend many a holiday in Bettyhill , north of you I know ,loved it up there!
Anyway,my question is do you or anyone else know a recipe for stovies , would like to cook it but forget exactly how to, it uses sliced potatoes and onions and is baked in the oven, what stock shall I use or fat? and do I precook the potatoes or put them in raw.
North of me by about 160 miles but south of Orkney. My brother lives near Lybster.
Stovies (from stoved potatoes meaning on top of the stove), here is one way : http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?p=23421&highlight=stovies#23421
I would do them differently. Fry onions in beef dripping (veg oil if your arteries need DynoRod). Add raw sliced potatoes and leftover beef + gravy (pot roasted topside or brisket is my fav). Maybe a beef stock cube (dry) and/or some Bisto. Burning them to the pot is part of the appeal. Add a little water if needed but they should be thick rather than sloppy.
Serve with oatcakes. Ensure you have PLENTY of pickled beetroot on the table.
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I would do them differently. Fry onions in beef dripping (veg oil if your arteries need DynoRod). Add raw sliced potatoes and leftover beef + gravy (pot roasted topside or brisket is my fav). Maybe a beef stock cube (dry) and/or some Bisto. Burning them to the pot is part of the appeal. Add a little water if needed but they should be thick rather than sloppy.
Serve with oatcakes. Ensure you have PLENTY of pickled beetroot on the table.[/quote]
Blimey, it IS grim up north. No wonder you had to invent whisky. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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That's Christmas dinner - you should see what we eat when we're slumming it.
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You poor, poor man. Would you like me to send some proper food? :wink:
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You poor, poor man. Would you like me to send some proper food? :wink:
If you've got any old sheep stomachs or intestines lying around they really would make a happy man very old.
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You poor, poor man. Would you like me to send some proper food? :wink:
If you've got any old sheep stomachs or intestines lying around they really would make a happy man very old.
I only have the one and I am going to fill it with bits of an animal normal people throw away. Boil it for an eternity and eat it listening to my archive tapes of the White Heather Club.
Mum, what's a stereotype? :?: :lol:
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Thanks WG I'll give it a go , you're right it should nt be runny , thats how I remember it, its great and a good way to use up cooked beef ! mm!
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I only have the one and I am going to fill it with bits of an animal normal people throw away. Boil it for an eternity and eat it listening to my archive tapes of the White Heather Club.
Mum, what's a stereotype? :?: :lol:
:lol: You forgot the oatmeal.
WHC eh? That Moira Anderson could certainly murder some lovely old songs.
A stereotype is someone who replies to posts with 2 fingers - one on each hand.
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I recall on a Hamish McBeth episode, a writer's wife made clapshot for the organizing committe meeting, but she brought it in as a shaped lump coated in oat flakes. Looked terrible; the committee thought so too.
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Awwh, these west coasters know naff all about clapshot !!
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Thought Moira Stuart was a newsreader WG. It was Jimmy something on WHC (in glorious b&w)
What's this cullen stink all about? :lol:
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Thought Moira Stuart was a newsreader WG. It was Jimmy something on WHC (in glorious b&w)
What's this cullen stink all about? :lol:
Moira Anderson ya numpty. Jimmy McGregor presented. Kenneth McKellar also murdered nice songs. And these so-called dancers! Shiver!!
Cullen is about 20 minutes from me & Cullen Skink is a wondrous drop of soup made from smoked haddock (as I suspect you know fine well) :wink:
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Yeah, sorry. :twisted:
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On the West Coast of Ireland when things got really tough, people would eat "potato and point" for days or weeks on end. You'd hang your last bit of smoked fish by the hearth, and then you'd point your potato at it to give it a bit of flavour.
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All the times I have visited Orkney I have never had bad weather, last year the whole week was wonderful!
Pamela (In Spain)
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Just spotted this, the Dutch have a similar recipe called Stampot (dunno the spelling) which is carrots and potatos cooked together and mashed with butter, it is delicious.
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By the way, did anyone mention that when WG says turnip he really means swede? Just couldn't be a***d to read through. :lol: Lovely though and the one with carrot too.
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We accidently had something like this the other day. We usually buy a large bag of potatoes, we had some chops left over. DH bought some potatoes and it wasn't quite enough, so we put in a turnip. Probably not a swede.
I am very proud of my Orcadian heritage. My ggrandfather was Orcadian. It was nice to look at the photos and hear more about clapshot.
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I am very proud of my Orcadian heritage. My ggrandfather was Orcadian. It was nice to look at the photos and hear more about clapshot.
Where are you in Aussie? We have Australian visitors with us at the moment - my wife's sister, hubby & three kids. They are from Alstonville, NSW.
Do you know whereabouts in Orkney your grandfather came from?
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By the way, did anyone mention that when WG says turnip he really means swede?
Correct, thank you. Lost in translation since I'd call them neeps anyway
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He was born in Australia to Orcadian parents. The father from Kirkwall, the mother from Eday.
I am on the NSW Victorian border near the Snowys.
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He was born in Australia to Orcadian parents. The father from Kirkwall, the mother from Eday.
I was born only 6 miles from Kirkwall!
I am on the NSW Victorian border near the Snowys.
Lovely country! I've been to Mansfield, Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale, Metung, Lake Eildon, Rutherglen and have played golf at Cobram Barooga. And we've all eaten tinned fruit from Shepparton. Don't know the NSW side so well though.
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I can't say I do either lol. I am just learning it. I have lived here 3 years. I lived closer to Mansfield and Rutherglen before.
NSW is quite different, I think anyway. I should add I still live in Victoria.