Scotch Mess

Name: Scotch Mess
Cuisine: Northern Europe
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 cups all-purpose flour; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; about ½ cup cold milk; ¼ cup vegetable oil; 1 teaspoon salt; whole milk; chicken eggs; dumpling strips cut from rolled pastry; ham bits and pieces

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cold-Smoking & Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, & Game

By A D Livingston

Published 2010

About

My mother made this dish frequently (by request) and called it ham pie. Almost always, it was made with the trimmings taken from around the bone of what was left of a baked country ham. Mother never did measure the ingredients—and I don’t, either.

Ingredients

ham bits and pieces
dumpling strips cut from rolled pastry
chicken eggs
whole milk
salt and pepper

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
Scotland

Method

Hard-boil the eggs, peel them, and cut them into slices. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Trim off some ham, and with it line the bottom of a baking dish or pan about 9 by 13 inches, and about