Monstrosities of Scottish Cuisine

You’re probably familiar with haggis. Oatmeal & sheep’s offal cooked in the animal’s stomach sounds like enough to turn any non-Scotsman’s stomach.

You may have also heard of finnan haddie and cock-a-leekie. But those are just weird names for smoked haddock and  chicken and leek soup.

So, here are a few you may not have heard of, whether stomach-churning or simply funny-sounding. Enjoy!

Deep-fried Mars bar 

Slaes – fruit of the blackthorn bush

Hawick balls – candies made of butterscotch & mint

Crabbie’s – brand of alcoholic ginger beer

Powsowdie – sheep’s head soup

Collops – a cut of meat

Killie pie – form of steak & gravy pie

Jethart snails – boiled sweets in the shape of a snail

Skirlie – fried oatmeal 

Pottit heid – head cheese

Forfar bridie – pastry filled with meat & onions

Clapshot – mashed potatoes & turnips

Irn-Bru – orange-colored soda

Clootie dumpling – kind of boiled pudding

Cabbie claw – young cod in white sauce with chopped egg whites

Hatted kit – milk pudding

Soor ploom – boiled green sweet

Flies’ graveyard – sweet pastry with currents or raisins

Fatty cutties – scone-like griddle cake (called “singing hinnies” in England)

Rumbledethumps – baked mashed potatoes & cabbage

Cullen skink – soup of haddock, potatoes & onions

Eyemouth pale – type of smoked haddock

Ecclefechan tart – stuffed, baked pastry

Crappit heid – fish head stuffed with oats, suet & liver

Festy cock – oatmeal pancake