KJ’s Nettle Loaf with Poached Eggs

Grantown on Spey

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large loaf
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
A Taste of the Highlands

By Ghillie Basan

Published 2021

  • About

It might be dark and misty, there could be snow on the ground and the temperature might turn the tip of her nose blue, but Kirsten Gilmour always cycles across the River Spey to KJ’s Bothy Bakery at 4 a.m. to get the breads into the oven. This is her new life. The Mountain Café Aviemore (2004–20) was one of the casualties of the Covid-19 lockdowns but, thankfully, KJ’s Bothy Bakery rose from its ashes. To ge