Subject: Fw: [Lanark] Clootie dumpling Scottish tradition Talk about recycling, that takes the CAKE!! A well used muslin sheet, a RELIC!! Recalls Granny every year! Family heirloom........ Ruth -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sutherland-Fisher (HFH)via Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 12:05 AM To: 'Maisie Egger' ; lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] Clootie dumpling Scottish tradition Morning all, I have happy childhood memories of my grandmother drying the clootie dumpling in front of an open coal fire wrapped in a muslin sheet. She used her mother's recipe and I still have my great grandmother's recipe, still on the piece of paper she wrote it on in the late 1800s. I have often made it myself (using the recipe and the last muslin sheet my grandmother washed and rewashed over the decades) but also now have a microwave recipe which works quite well. Meanwhile large parts of the northwest of England and the Scottish Borders have been devastated this weekend by flooding. Shap in Cumbria has seen around 12 inches of rain in little over 24 hours, more than one month's worth in what is already the wettest part of the UK (hence the reason it is the Lake District). Mark