Marian MacNeill surmised that if every French woman was born with a saucepan in her hand every Scots woman was born with a rolling pin. I remember my Aberdonian grandmother saying she was referring to the Scottish ability to bake, not to deal with husbands when they came home drunk! Certainly when I was young it was the great test of a woman’s suitability as a daughter-in-law. There is nothing nicer than the smell of baking through the house and it is one of my objections t
