An Idle Wonder....

[EcclesCake]

....as we approach Burns Night who adds prunes to their cock a leekie?

[WesterRoss]

Well, I am a member of the Wester Ross Burns Club and at the Burns Supper we always have prunes, well at least two in every bowl of cock a leekie. Nothing odd about it at all just part of the Bard's traditional supper. Don't know what he would have thought about it though!

[mazie]

having said that the old man has never had prunes in his and his Mum was a Scottish farmers wife. I'd not heard of it before Eccles' post today

[wolf63]

I am in the east.

We don't put sausages in steak pies either. :-)

[EcclesCake]

Will I be about to cause the Delia effect with ABers far and wide heading to the supper markets and emptying the shelves of prunes......?



Doubt it.... :-(

[mazie]

You're not wrong Eccles... I bloody hate prunes :o(

[Buenchico]

From Wikipedia:
"The original recipe added prunes during cooking, and traditionalists still garnish with a julienne of prunes. Anne Mulhern of Glasgow's Willow Tearooms suggests that the reason for the addition of prunes dates back to times when only boiling fowls were available and prunes were added to increase the nutritional value of the broth".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock-a-leekie_soup

[EcclesCake]

Wrap a bit of bacon around a prune, whack it in the oven and tuck in.....hmmmmm devils on horseback......even better with a touch of whole grain mustard in the centre of the prune....yuummmmmmyyyyy! :-)

[BlackadderV]

"...a julienne of prunes"

How pretentious! We're not talking haute cuisine here, just Scottish peasant fodder.

[EcclesCake]

What is pretentious about cutting finely?

[BlackadderV]

It was the word julienne which made me say that. Why not just say finely sliced?

[EcclesCake]

Nothing, but I wouldn't consider the use of the term 'julienne' pretentious, it is quite a well known culinary term.

[BlackadderV]

I wouldn't consider the use of the term 'julienne' pretentious, it is quite a well known culinary term.

Not in the caff wot I nosh in, it ain't.

[janbee]

Nay, nay and thrice nay !!

[janbee]

Hoots Mon... no !

[ethandron]

It's just like having apple sauce with pork, or cranberry sauce with turkey, or pineapple with gammon isn't it? I love food with a sweet and savoury taste combination, sounds really nice.

[janbee]

Prunes should only be used in landfill sites or to fill potholes in the roads.

[Gavmacp]

Prunes!!! NO!!

[EcclesCake]

Wow, I had no idea prunes where so unpopular!