Hamish Taylor’s Ceann Cropaig

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Taste of Scotland’s Islands

By Sue Lawrence

Published 2019

  • About

According to Hamish, this was quite a well-known supplement to a staple diet of boiled fish, ‘back-in-the-day’. Hamish prefers flour to the standard oatmeal.

Ingredients

  • 4 medium-sized coarse fish, such as Coley
  • 1 large teaspoon of black pepper
  • 1 large

Method

Lay the fish in a large pan and generously cover with salted water and set to boil. While the fish comes to the boil, mix the pepper, salt and onion into the flour.

Gradually add the seasoned flour to the livers, mixing thoroughly with your bare hands. The more you mix, the softer the mixture becomes, so continue adding flour until the mix consistency is so firm that a ball of mixture j