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Packaged Foods
Food is a popular and accessible form of souvenir or gift to
purchase during a visit to Scotland. Teatime is a favourite
meal with the Scottish, offering such treats as Dundee cake,
butter shortbread, Abernethy biscuits, Scotch pancakes and
parlies (ginger cookies). Oatcakes are the traditional
accompaniment to cheese in Scotland,
although they also comple ment pâté and
sweet toppings such as jam or honey. Vegetarian haggis Original haggis
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.

Traditional pure butter shortbread Oatcakes

Scotch Abernethy biscuits
Fudge is an extremely sweet con-
fectionary made almost entirely of
sugar and condensed milk. There are
many different flavours, from vanilla
to rum and raisin, walnut, chocolate
and whisky.
Dairy vanilla fudge LochRanza whisky fudge
Bottled Drinks Beers and ales fig ure
prominently in the
Home to a large number of distil-
leries and breweries, Scotland is drink produced in
Scotland. Tradi tionally
perhaps associated most with served by the pint in
its alcoholic beverages. There pubs, they can also
is certainly a good range be purchased in
on sale, including locally bottles. Alternative
brewed beers and ales, many choices include fruit
varieties of Scotch whisky ales and heather ales,
(see pp36–7) and an brewed using ancient
assortment of spirits and Highland recipes.
liqueurs, such as Drambuie
and Glayva. But Scotland is Historic Scottish ales
also famed for its mountain
spring water, which is sold
still, fizzy (carbonated) or
flavoured with fruits Highland spring
such as peach or melon. water

Whisky is
undoubtedly the
most famous of all
Scottish spirits. There
are a huge number
of whiskies from
which to choose,
each with a unique
taste (see pp36–7).
Drambuie is a
variation on a theme,
being a whisky-
based, herb-
flavoured liqueur. Drambuie Glenfiddich LochRanza Glen Ord Bell’s

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