SCOTTISH APRON
Microwave Clootie Dumplin Recipe
(red ties)

Description

Designed by and available only from Mither Tongue, this premium quality, comfortable-to-wear, 100% cotton apron, with adjustable, polyester, non-tangle ties, includes the recipe, in Scots, for a quick, no-steam, no-hassle Clootie Dumpling in just 9 minutes! Easy-to-follow English translation included.

Pre-treated to retain colour vibrancy.
Printed and sewn in the UK using environmentally-friendly chemicals and water-based inks.
Hand-finished, folded and wrapped.

Easy to pack and light to post – a great gift for Scotland’s bairns worldwide.

Text as follows:

Microwave
CLOOTIE DUMPLIN
(without a cloot!)

FIT YE NEED
Microwave-freendly bowel, lined wi cling film hingin weel oot ower
A muckle pan
Bowel an whisk

1/2 pint (300 ml) watter
4 unce (100 g) fite sugar
A guid tablespeen mixed spice
A guid tablespeen cinnamon
8 unce (200 g) margarine
8 unce (200 g) raisins an sic like
A tablespeen o traecle
1 lb (400 g) plain flooer an a taespeen o bakin soda – sieved thegither
Twa eggs

FIT YE DAE

BEAT IN A BOWEL
The twa eggs

PIT INTAE PAN
Watter, sugar, spices, margarine, fruit an traecle

SYNE
Tak tae bile on yer hob an hotter for twa meenits
Tak aff the heat an steer in flooer an bakin soda
Coup in the eggs an gie aathin a guid steer

Coup aathin intae the lined bowel, bit dinna hap wi cling film!
Cook in 650 w microwave for 9 meenits (less for mair pooerfu oven)
Tak oot, leave tae queel a thochtie, syne coup oot

Dish oot wedges tae freens an faimily wi a dollop o cream an a muckle dram o Scotch fusky