The Dented Kettle

Scotland has produced some excellent names for food. There is clootie dumpling, cranachan, skirlie, cock-a-leekie and the splendidly unpretentious stovies. But surely one of the finest is rumbledethumps. It sounds like something that happens when a cupboard collapses in the kitchen. In fact, it

There was a time when a Scottish Halloween supper might include a large bowl of oatmeal and cream, with a silver coin, a ring, a button and a thimble hidden somewhere inside it. The object discovered on your spoon was supposed to reveal something