Cranachan

This is a special family gathering for Highland clanspeople (circa 1700) to celebrate the year’s harvest. On the table too is a bowl of their own-grown meal ground finely. There is a large bowl of thick cream from their milking cow and another is filled with the soft, white ‘crowdie’ cheese that they make by cooking curdled milk and hanging it to drip in a cloth. There is a bowl of wild honey and the ever-available stoneware bottle of their own distilled water-of-life (usquabae), later to become known as whisky.