The Butt and Ben’s Arbroath Crepe

Appears in
Two Fat Ladies: Full Throttle

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1998

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Scotland’s great legacy to food is cold smoking of fish and, when it comes to haddock, ingenuity knows no bounds. There are at least sixty-nine recorded variants on the theme including some which are sun-dried a patient version with Scots weather! Everyone knows the Arbroath smokie and it is such an old product that it is nice to think that Robert I’s stirring declaration of independence at Arbroath in 1320 might have been composed over a supper of them. What most people do