Thank you Geoffrey. That sounds really good. I'm getting hungry. Perhaps we could organize an "International Stovies Cookoff" contest--part of an Orkney Foods Festival. Sorry, I digress. Hunger makes the mind wander. Karen
I don't think stovies are a typically Orcadian dish. As an Orcadian born and bred I don't ever remember having them as I was being brought up during World War 2 and afterwards. I might have had stovies, not knowing what they were, but I had honestly never heard of them until my job took me to Banff in the northeast of mainland Scotland in the mid-1970s. I had to ask what they were! Now if you we were to have a thread on clapshot.... :-) Kind regards Mike Clouston
On 29 September 2004 19:13, Mike Clouston wrote: > I had honestly never heard of them until > my job took > me to Banff in the northeast of mainland Scotland in the mid-1970s. I > had to ask what they were! Same here. I first encountered Stovies in an Oor Wullie (or possibly The Broons) comic strip in the late 1970s. -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk
OK, Mike, you've got me ....what's clapshot? Jan At 04:12 AM 30/09/2004 Thursday, you wrote: >I don't think stovies are a typically Orcadian dish. As an Orcadian born >and bred I don't ever remember having them as I was being brought up >during World War 2 and afterwards. I might have had stovies, not knowing >what they were, but I had honestly never heard of them until my job took >me to Banff in the northeast of mainland Scotland in the mid-1970s. I had >to ask what they were! > >Now if you we were to have a thread on clapshot.... :-) > >Kind regards > >Mike Clouston > > >==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com Jan Nary 31 Leybourne St, Chelmer Queensland 4068 Publicist & Journalist National Folk Festival Publicist <http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/>http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/ Co-host Acoustic Harvest Bay FM 100.3 <http://www.bayfm.org.au/>http://www.bayfm.org.au/ tel. 44 7 3379 4178 fax 447 3278 2360 mob. 0429 898 328 UK 07905 976 173
On 29 September 2004 23:04, Jan Nary wrote: > OK, Mike, you've got me ....what's clapshot? Mashed tatties and neeps (potato and turnip). -- Sigurd Towrie Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk