Friday, April 07, 2006

Today's recipe in Ulster Scots is: Oul' Granny's Pancakes!

Ingredients:
twa gopins o' soda breed flour
a nievefa o' sugar
an egg
buttermilk

pook o' dripping

Method:
Heat the griddle an' lightly creech wae dripping
Siv the floor an' sugar intae a muckle boul
In a seperat' boul bate th' egg til airy
Mak a well in the middl' o' th' dry mixture an' gradually ad' th' egg an' enough buttermilk tae mak an airy batter

Drop a drip o' th' batter on tae th' griddle for each pancake. When bubbles appear turn the pancake ower tae cook on the ither side.

Then scream. And resolve to never set foot in Northern Ireland ever again.