An Angler’s breakfast

Plump burn trout fried in oatmeal, accompanied with fried tomatoes and thick slices of brown bread and turnip-yellow butter.

On a wild spot within the Ballochiebuie Forest, with Lochnagar towering above it, stands one of the most delightful of the Royal Shiels, once a favourite picnic site of Queen Victoria when in residence at Balmoral. Close by flows the Garbh Allt, where John Brown o