200 Year Old Scottish Pan Pudding Recipe Historic Cooking Scottish Recipes
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Published 2021-01-31
This recipe is from the third edition of Mrs Frazer’s historic cookbook “The Practice Of Cookery…” printed in Edinburgh in 1800. This old traditional Scottish recipe is something like a pancake, but not really; it's almost an unleavened version of a Girdle scone or griddle scone - but not really. 1800s traditional recipes are a bit different than recipes today, and making these old recipes is like tasting history in your own kitchen.
Pan Puddings
Beat up four or five eggs with four ſpoonfuls of flour, and caſt it until is free of knots. Then put in a half a tea-ſpoonful of ſalt, a little cinnamon, nutmeg, half a mutchkin of ſweet milk, a glaſs of brandy, four ounces of currants, the ſame quantity of ſugar, and as much ſuet ſhred ſmall; mix all well together. Then put a piece of butter in a frying-pan, and, when it boils, place as many petit-pans, with looſe bottoms, in the pan as it will hold, with the mouths downmoſt; pour the pudding in at the holes in the bottom, and fry them on a ſlow fire. When the pans come off eaſily, it is a ſign the puddings are nearly done. Then turn them up and ſet them on their bottoms, that they may be equally and thoroughly fried.
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All Comments (21)
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Glen, I don’t know if you realize how much many of us appreciate the Sunday morning old cookbook show. We do.
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My granny from Scotland made these as a lunch snack in the 1960's.
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You can probably use canning jar rings for this recipe, too
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The best part was the quintessential Canadian moment of finding a nearly empty bag in the milk jug and having to do a mid-pour refill.
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"half a tea-fpoonful of falt" dammit, I'm all out of falt and I can't find my fpoon.
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I swear I almost heard you say, "I love it when a flan comes together."
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This is perhaps an ancestor of what I would call either a Scotch pancake or a drop scone - less fluffy than American pancakes but much thicker than a French crepe - which would not now be made with suet. (Full disclosure: I'm from England but have also lived in Scotland.)
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Hi Glen, born and raised in the central belt of a Scotland and as soon as I saw the ingredients I knew what you were making. We have it here as a breakfast food as part of a a fry up and call it “fruit pudding” it goes with black pudding, potato scones and fried bread :) From watching I would have expected a slightly thicker batter but everything else is spot on.
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Good morning. I also collect old cookbooks. Sunday morning with Glen, friends and good coffee, perfection. And then you mention the Townsends. Lovely.
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It was interesting that you mentioned Townsend. I was thinking that this would fit well on their channel and was thinking a crossover could be great.
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Those would probably go really well with some fresh fruit. Plate up two and then a medley of blueberries, cherries, blackberries, raspberries. Flanked with some orange or tangerine and apple. It would be a filling breakfast to give you the energy to pull a truck out of a snowy ditch.
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Hi Glen born bred raised and live in Scotland this is an old fashioned fruit pudding recipe, fruit pudding is still available today from the butchers, and can be had at breakfast lunch or dinner, it's an all round sort of thing. but especially nice with a full Scottish breakfast fryup, bacon eggs black pudding, haggis, fruit pudding, potato (tattie) scones, link or lorne square sausage, toast and a nice cuppa coffee or tea. Dang you made me hungry!
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I love that in 2021, a "slow fire" is an induction range on medium. The recipe was written decades before electromagnetic induction was even discovered!
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I would love an explanation of how you got started collecting these books. I think that would be an interesting video.
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I especially enjoy the Sunday show, my old cookbook collection is growing.
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I wish every day was Sunday morning in the old cookbook show day
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Congrats Glen on airing on TV! You deserve it for how much time you put in for these shows. Huge Fan!
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Glen is a blessing to me . I tear up up when he is improving my life
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For those of us who sometimes forget to eat, these old calorie-dense recipes are terrific.
