Scottish Food

Scottish people have long been known for eating meats and fat with root vegetables like potatoes, radishes and carrots. Scottish food is usually very heavy and filling. The hard cold rainy weather in Scotland is part of the reason food there is so fatty and heavy. Nothing warms a person up faster and gives strength like a hot bowl of stew.

Haggis is one of Scottish national dishes. Its ingredients are the following:

1cleaned sheep or lamb's stomach

2 lb. (pound) dry oatmeal

1 lb. chopped lamb

1 lb. lamb liver, boiled and cut

1 lb. sheep heart, boiled and cut

1 large chopped onion

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. Pepper

1) Scottish people have long been known for …… …. …. with root vegetables

like potatoes, radishes and carrots.

2) Scottish food is usually very…...

3) ………….. is part of the reason food there is so fatty and heavy.

4) Nothing warms a person up faster and gives strength like ……...

5) One of the Haggis ingredients is 1 lb. of boiled and cut …….

H.T. read the information about Scottish Holidays. Find more detailed info yourself and make up a topic about Scotland.

- Bannockburn Day, June 24. On this day in 1314, Robert Bruce drove

the English from Scotland, thus gaining its independence.
- The Day After, January 2.
- Handsel Monday, first Monday in January (Jan 5, 2004). Celebrates the new year.
- Highland Games, last Saturday in September (Sep 25, 2004).
- May Day, May 1. [observed on last Monday in May? ]

- Public holidays New Year's Day (Jan 1-2), Good Friday, May Day, Spring Holiday, Summer Bank Holiday, Chistmas, Boxing Day, Bank Holiday.

- Additional holidays in Edinburgh: Scottish New Year's Day (Jan 2), Victoria Day (3rd Mon in May), and Autumn Holiday (3rd Mon in Sep).