This is Marion McNeill’s own recipe for broonie, the Orkney oatmeal gingerbread. As an Orcadian born and bred, Ms. McNeill’s recipe can be expected to be the real McCoy. In the old days, favors would have been buried in a dish of crowdie or champit (mashed) tatties. The charms most commonly used are the ring (foretelling marriage to the recipient), the button (bachelordom), the thimble (spinsterhood), the coin (wealth), the wishbone (th
