I've found the perfect drink for the Stroll Up Scotland - drammach (the name comes from the Gaelic, dramaig).
The recipe is from F Marian McNeill's "The Scots Kitchen. Its lore and recipes." The original book was published in 1929 - I have a 1974 edition. Drammach is the very last recipe in the book.
The ingredients are oatmeal, salt, pepper and water, and F Marian McNeill describes this as "the hiker's 'special'." The recipe is to "...carry some oatmeal, seasoned with salt and pepper, and mix it with cold water until thin enough to drink." She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson as saying of drammach that it "provides a good enough dish for a hungry man, and where there are no means of making fire, or good reasons for not making one, it is the chief stand-by of those who have taken to the heather."
I'll be taking drammach to the heather.
The recipe is from F Marian McNeill's "The Scots Kitchen. Its lore and recipes." The original book was published in 1929 - I have a 1974 edition. Drammach is the very last recipe in the book.
The ingredients are oatmeal, salt, pepper and water, and F Marian McNeill describes this as "the hiker's 'special'." The recipe is to "...carry some oatmeal, seasoned with salt and pepper, and mix it with cold water until thin enough to drink." She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson as saying of drammach that it "provides a good enough dish for a hungry man, and where there are no means of making fire, or good reasons for not making one, it is the chief stand-by of those who have taken to the heather."
I'll be taking drammach to the heather.
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