Crowdie or Cruddy Butter

Highlands

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

  • About

(Recipe supplied to the Cleikum Club by P. Touchwood, Esq.)

Ingredients

  • sweet milk curd
  • fresh butter

Method

In Inverness and the Ross shires there is a rural breakfast article called crowdie, not the common composition, oatmeal and water or milk, but made thus: Take two parts fresh sweet-milk curd and one of fresh butter. Work them well together and press them in a basin or small shape and turn it out, when it will slice nicely. When whey is much used for drink in hot weather the curd may be usefully