I'm trying to avoid the recipe-ness a little in order to focus more on the novelty-ness, please forgive me if this looks like it should end up on halfbakedrecipes.com.
You've heard of English muffins (snigger) and Australian toaster biscuits (guffaw). Now I bring you Angus McClellan's Scottish breakfast toast.
As the Scots are known mostly for disgusting food made from sheep parts, perhaps some well-meaning American soul could ease this narrow-mindedness by coming up with the latest {insert English speaking country here} breakfast bread craze. In this case, Scottish. Made from potato flour and perhaps oats. Fat content from some sort of haggis dish. Something like a bannock, but mass-produced and fork split.
I realize that bannocks are already manufactured. What I'm really going for here is a slight variation from the American English biscuit muffin.-- bdag, Nov 03 2009 Potato Scone http://en.wikipedia...g/wiki/Potato_sconeTattie scone [Jinbish, Nov 03 2009] Oatcakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatcake"Oatcakes are widely considered to be the national bread of Scotland, and have held that position for many centuries." [Jinbish, Nov 03 2009] Plain Bread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_bread"Plen brid" [Jinbish, Nov 03 2009] Scone http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Scone_(bread)The scone is a small British quickbread (or cake if recipe includes sugar) of Scottish origin. [Jinbish, Nov 03 2009] Short Bread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShortbreadIt's a biscuit - but it's named like a bread... [Jinbish, Nov 03 2009] Rowies http://en.wikipedia...Buttery_%28bread%29Aberdonian, full of salt and fat, and eaten toasted for breakfast with jam. [prufrax, Nov 04 2009] Belgian Waffles http://en.wikipedia...iki/Belgian_wafflesNot the original name [bdag, Nov 04 2009] See you Jimmie? What you onnabout?
So it's a muffin, only you're calling it Scottish, because (apparently) Scottish food is unpalatable, and it's got oats in? And why? Because you want to invent some kind of alternate Scotch [sic] muffin, only one that's not a scone, or a bannock?
Sorry, but you've really got to do a bit better than this.-- zen_tom, Nov 03 2009 Scottish muffin top, mmmmm.-- normzone, Nov 03 2009 "McMuffin" ?
I'm not sure I understand - it's like a bannock (which is like a scone), but it's mass produced. What's the innovation?
And 'disgusting' is purely subjective.-- Jinbish, Nov 03 2009 I would like to point out that this is the halfbakery. I would also like to point out that I am making fun of Americans for mass producing everything under the sun AND making it little like the original.
Tell me about English muffins then, won't you? (Or not. I understand the atrocity that they are).-- bdag, Nov 03 2009 Tackling the narrow-mindedness towards Scottish cuisine would be best served by inventing a haggis feeding machine.
(One which feeds haggis to people. Not a machine that force-feeds poor wee haggisses - that would be cruelty to animals.)-- Jinbish, Nov 03 2009 Would it be available deep-fried ?-- 8th of 7, Nov 03 2009 If you'd like. But then I think 'twould be called a deounuth.-- bdag, Nov 03 2009 I do not understand why people who eat commercially produced sausage and burgers, think that haggis is disgusting.-- pocmloc, Nov 03 2009 //WTF is an "Australian toaster biscuit"?//
Dunno, but it probably has a venomous bite.-- Jinbish, Nov 03 2009 So... you're insulting both Scots and Americans? Well that's not very nice, and hardly worthy of an HB posting. [-]-- 21 Quest, Nov 03 2009 //Not a machine that force-feeds poor wee haggisses// The agreed pluralisation is Haggi.-- MikeOliver, Nov 03 2009 So this is like Irish Coffee, then?-- Ian Tindale, Nov 04 2009 I think the supposition that Scots are known mostly for digusting food is erroneous. They're also well known for earsplitting music, masculine skirts, boring sports, huge swords, beards, unintelligible speech, and excellent whisky. There are also a fair few dog breeds they lay claim to, such as the Skye Terrier, Cairne Terrier, and Scottish Deerhound.-- 21 Quest, Nov 04 2009 I think this is too close to being a recipe [marked-for-deletion]-- hippo, Nov 04 2009 Anyway, the correct terminology is not 'scottish' or 'scots' but 'scotch'.-- calum, Nov 04 2009 Sounds like maybe the humble Torry Rowie would fit the bill?
Fat-laden and very salty flat squarish flaky bread. Eaten toasted for breakfast, topped with jam.-- prufrax, Nov 04 2009 Seems I was a bit obscure for even the best of you. Sorry if it looks like a recipe. I mentioned it's not that. I don't care what it's made out of necessarily. I'm suggesting another food in the lineup of mass-produced food that is so far from it's original lineage that it might as well be a brand new food. Sort of like saying I've got George Washington's original axe. The head and handle have been changed a few times, but it's the one he used!
I personally have nothing against Scotch food, the people, or their ways. Americans maybe a little more so.
[Ian] Yes! Irish Coffee, Italian Soda, and Belgian waffles. By the by, see the link to wiki on Belgian waffles. Hilarious read.-- bdag, Nov 04 2009 I had a waffle in Belgium once. I had no idea your teeth could itch.-- bigsleep, Nov 04 2009 I think this is [marked-for-deletion] naming. a name in search of an idea.-- dentworth, Nov 04 2009 //Scotch// Sp. Sc....oh, what's the point?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2009 "Tell me about English muffins then, won't you? (Or not. I understand the atrocity that they are)."
The atrocity being that they are what...not full of sugar?-- Duckjuice, Nov 05 2009 <Dave Bowman>
"Oh my God—it's full of......sugar !"
</Dave Bowman>-- 8th of 7, Nov 05 2009 //Tell me about English muffins then, won't you? (Or not. I understand the atrocity that they are)//At least they make the most out of a toaster.-- coprocephalous, Nov 06 2009 Pizza was much the same. It started with bakers selling the test dough with a bit of tomato on it.-- wagster, Nov 06 2009 //and sold cheaply to the lower classes//They may have been sold cheaply, but the vendors made a tidy profit - have you seen house prices on Drury Lane?-- coprocephalous, Nov 06 2009 <49-er drawl>
"Thaarr's goolld in tham thaarr muffins !"
</49-er drawl>-- 8th of 7, Nov 06 2009 Meh, fancy oat cuisine. I'll stick with me porridge.-- bigsleep, Nov 06 2009 You will not eat my Scottish Muffins You will not eat them with the puffins You will not eat them with a pun You will not eat them while you run You will not, shall not, can not, won't Give my Tartan bun a bun.-- bdag, Nov 06 2009 A somewhat Seusspicious annotation, [bdag]....-- 8th of 7, Nov 06 2009 halfbakery