Aberdeen Butteries Butteries/Rowies/Aberdeen rolls 250g butter 125g lard 1 tablespoon soft brown sugar 500g flour 2 teaspoons of dried yeast 450ml warm water Pinch of salt Aberdeen Butteries Baking Directions For Aberdeen Butteries: 1. Make a paste from the yeast, sugar and a wee bit of the warm water and set aside. 2. Mix the flour and the salt together. Once the yeast has bubbled up add this and mix well to a dough and leave to rise. 3. Cream the butter and lard and divide into three portions. 4. Once the dough has doubled in size give it a good knead then roll into a rectangle about 1cm thick. 5. Then spread one portion of the butter mixture over two thirds of the dough. 6. Fold the remaining third of the dough over onto the butter mixture and fold the other bit over - giving three layers. Roll this back to the original size. 7. Allow to cool for 40 minutes. 8. Repeat stages 5-7 twice more. 9. Cut the dough into 16 pieces and shape each to a rough circle and place on baking trays. 10. Set aside to rise for about 45 minutes then bake at 200c for 15 minutes.

Hi folks, In general it is not good to post recipes (jokes, chain emails, light chatter, ethnic jokes, etc) here. When we did these things we had fights between the serious people who are here for the genealogy and the social, cultural folks who find it boring. We solved that problem by starting another list for the social and culture people: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Ethnic-Scots/SCOTCH-IRISH-CULTURE.html Whether or not they will find a Scottish recipe off topic or not is for them to decide. "Scotch-Irish" is the name of an ethnic group in America. It does not mean 'maybe Irish, maybe Scots' as some seem to think. It also doesn't mean "Scotland". Scotland is a different country. On a different island from the homeland of the Scotch Irish, which is Ireland. It has a different culture, different history, different types of records, different food, different legal system even (Scots: Roman. Ireland: English common law). Just think for a moment: Is the USA England? If you think they are the same, try ordering up some spotted dick in an American restaurant. In Ireland they're called Ulster Scots. I think the same is generally true for Canada, but for bleed throughs due to the lack of a retaining wall between the two countries. We thank you for the recipe but it and all others need to be posted on the right list to avoid a breakout of hostilities. My new policy is if you cause a war I'm making YOU list admin. Now who towed Aberdeen to Belfast? What a job! I'd try a west coast Scots city first, but I'm lazy. Linda Merle (Jr. List Admin, after Extent)

I intended to send the recipe to the Scottish-Irish-Food list, but was a bit distracted and clicked on the wrong address. I didn't even realize it had gone to the wrong list until the responses started coming in. I do hope this will die down soon so we can get back to the business of genealogy.