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What to Buy Packaged Foods
Food is a popular and accessible form of souvenir or gift to
Scotland offers a wide range of goods and souvenirs to tempt its visitors. purchase during a visit to Scotland. Teatime is a favourite
Most food and drink items can be found in Edinburgh’s food stores and off- meal with the Scottish, offering such treats as Dundee cake,
licences (liquor stores that also stock tobacco). A number of specialist shops butter shortbread, Abernethy biscuits, Scotch pancakes and
in the city sell more unusual Scottish crafts and products, from handcrafted parlies (ginger cookies). Oatcakes are the traditional
accompaniment to cheese in Scotland,
jewellery to clothing, such as tartan kilts and knitwear. Certain areas of although they also comple ment pâté and
Scotland specialize in particular crafts – Orkney is famed for its jew ellery, sweet toppings such as jam or honey. Vegetarian haggis Original haggis
Caithness and Edinburgh for their beautifully engraved glassware. They are also delicious toasted and served Haggis, the most famous of Scottish
with plenty of butter.
foods, traditionally consists of sheep’s
offal and oatmeal. It is now also
available in vegetarian, venison and
whisky-laced varieties.
Caithness glass Edinburgh glass
paperweight goblet
Scottish glass is beautifully Traditional pure butter shortbread Oatcakes
decorated. The Caithness glass
factories in Oban, Perth and Wick
Amethyst brooch Celtic brooch Scotch Abernethy biscuits
offer tours to show how delicate
Scottish jewellery reflects either the area in which it patterns are engraved.
was made, a culture (such as Celtic) or an artistic Fudge is an extremely sweet con-
Celtic earrings movement such as Art Nouveau. The unbroken, fectionary made almost entirely of
intricate patterns and knotwork in the jewellery sugar and condensed milk. There are
pictured above symbolize the wish for eternal life. many different flavours, from vanilla
to rum and raisin, walnut, chocolate
and whisky.
Dairy vanilla fudge LochRanza whisky fudge
Dagger (“sgian dubh”)
Stag horn is carved into all Bottled Drinks Beers and ales fig ure
Sporran manner of objects, both Home to a large number of distil- prominently in the
functional, as with this leries and breweries, Scotland is drink produced in
ashtray, and decorative. Scotland. Tradi tionally
perhaps associated most with served by the pint in
its alcoholic beverages. There
Scottish tartan originally is certainly a good range pubs, they can also
existed in the form of a on sale, including locally be purchased in
feileadh-mor (meaning “great brewed beers and ales, many bottles. Alternative
plaid” or “great kilt”), an choices include fruit
untailored garment draped varieties of Scotch whisky ales and heather ales,
over the shoulder and around (see pp36–7) and an brewed using ancient
the waist. It was worn by assortment of spirits and Highland recipes.
Highlanders in the 15th and liqueurs, such as Drambuie
16th centuries. Today, and Glayva. But Scotland is Historic Scottish ales
“tartan” refers to the also famed for its mountain
distinctive patterns spring water, which is sold
woven into cloth. Some still, fizzy (carbonated) or
are based on the designs flavoured with fruits Highland spring
Classic Scottish kilt Tartan tie and scarf of centuries past. such as peach or melon. water
Whisky is
undoubtedly the
Scottish textiles vary most famous of all
greatly, but the most Scottish spirits. There
distinctive include are a huge number
chunky woollens from of whiskies from
the islands; smart which to choose,
tweeds, such as Harris each with a unique
tweed with its fine- taste (see pp36–7).
toothed check; softest Drambuie is a
cashmere, used to make variation on a theme,
sweaters, cardigans and being a whisky-
scarves; and fluffy based, herb-
sheepskin rugs. Cable-knit sweater Tweed jacket flavoured liqueur. Drambuie Glenfiddich LochRanza Glen Ord Bell’s

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