IT'S been in her family for more than 100 years and the recipe has been passed down through three generations. Now Margaret Cant's famous clootie dumpling is being served up in one of Scotland's ...

The clatter and bubble of a suet pudding boiling in a pot can warm a person faster than any radiator can. It fills the kitchen with a warm fug of sugar and spice and when facing a dark Scottish winter ...

A wishing well where the currency is cloth instead of coin, a clootie well harks back to ancient Celtic tradition. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

The Clootie Well at Munlochy on the Black Isle in Scotland is a place where people go to receive healing. At his traditional Scottish healing well, people tie strips of cloth (cloots) to trees or ...

THE Diary provides a tranquil oasis for readers exhausted by the ways of the world. We steer clear of the hurly-burly, avoid the argy-bargy. Yet occasionally even we must raise a clenched fist and ...

I've been revisiting the Clootie Dumpling - a Scottish Suet Pudding steamed in a cloth (cloot). This pudding was developed as a sweet version of the savoury Haggis and is the Scottish alternative to a ...

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