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Occasions Unique To The United Kingdom
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GENERAL/MIXED/MISC.

Guy Fawkes Day / Bonfire Night

Highland Game Soup - Scots Independent

Rich Scottish Chocolate Cake (for the Scottish Daft Days) - Scots Independent

Something To Make You See In The Dark (V-E Day recipes: mock sole, carrot cookies) - The Orcadian

Yule


BRIGID'S DAY

Click here for the Christian 'St. Brigid's Day'

Click here for the Pagan 'Brigid's Day'


BURN'S NIGHT

A Veggie Haggis For A Burn's Night Feast - The Vegetarian Society UK

Burn's Night (how to celebrate, recipes, poetry...) - BBC

Burn's Night Recipes (neeps, tatties, haggis, cock-a-leekie soup) - NorthIrish.net

Burn's Night Special Recipe - Drinks Mixer

Burns Night Supper (buttermilk bannock, hot toddy chicken with pancetta & garlic mashed potatoes, bashed neeps & taddies, cullen skink / Finnan haddock & potato soup...) - Recipezaar

Celebrate Burn's Night With The Haggis - Scots-Roots

Cranachan Recipe - Traditional Scottish Recipes

Haggis Recipes (meatitarian, Moroccan-influenced vegetarian & French-influenced vegetarian versions) - Jofish.com

Haggis Recipes (Americanized haggis, quick haggis, beef haggis, Lady Login's receipt...) - Tom Kreitzberg

It's Traditional: Burn's Night (scroll down for recipes: cock-a-leekie soup, tatties-an-neeps/clapshot, tipsy laird) - Traditions UK

Kosher Haggis Problem Revealed (traditional & kosher recipes for haggis and clapshot) - The Capitol Scot

Organising A Burns Supper - iVillage

Pan Haggis (to commemorate Robert Burns on the date of his death, July 21st) - Scots Independent

Recipes For Burn's Night Celebrations (cullen skink, bridies, the bagless haggis, neeps & tatties) - Fada 's Farsaing

Wee Scottish Beastie & Mashed Root Vegetables (vegan haggis) - Foods For Life


HOGMANAY

A Menu For Hogmanay In Scotland (kipper cream, black bun) - Scottish Radiance

A Rich Scotch Bun/Black Bun - The Recipe Circus

Black Bun - Cathollic Culture

Black Bun - Rampant Scotland

Black Bun - Recipe Hound

Black Bun Recipe - Traditional Scottish Recipes

Hamely Fair: Tea Time Treats (for Hogmanay: treacle scones, Charlotte's Granny's scones, girdle scones, shortbread...) - Stories & Stovies by Charlotte Bleh

Hogmanay Hangover ("cures" for the morning after) - Hogmanay.net

Hogmanay Recipes (chicken in apple & whiskey sauce, peppered pork, collops of venison, peaches in whiskey...) - Visit Dunkeld

New Year's Toast: Mark Hix Celebrates Hogmanay With Delicious, Easy-To-prepare Canapés (crab thermidor tarts, deep-fried salsify, smoked mackerel and horseradish on toast, cranberry meringues...)- The Independent

Scotch Black Bun - Chef2Chef

Special Occassions: Hogmanay (blackbun, Taigh na Mara Highland shortbread) - Vegan Society


MOTHERING SUNDAY / MID-LENT SUNDAY

A Simnel Cake For Mothering Sunday - Chippingnorton.net

Bake A Traditional Cake For Your Mum (simnal cake) - BBC Shropshire

Bake Fest Friday & My Mum (cranberry & lemon springtime cake) - Cherry's English Kitchen

Bury Simnel Cake (ancient recipe) - Lynsted Community Website

Lancashire Fig Pie - Recipe-zaar

Mid-Lent Sunday & The Origins Of Mother's Day (scroll down for simnel cake recipe) - Wilson's Almanac

Mothering Sunday (simnel cake recipe) - Human Flower Project

Mothering Sunday (vegan simnel cake) - Vegan Christians

Mothering Sunday UK (simnel cake with almond paste) - Everyday's A Holiday

Mrs. Margaret Rodwell’s Recipe For Simnel Cake - St. Boniface Church, Bunbury

Scrambled Eggs Wrapped In Smoked Salmon - Jill Dupleix

Simnel Cake - Irish Cultures & Customs

Simnel Cakes: A Traditional Lenten Cake Associated With Mothering Sunday And Laetare Sunday - Kir-Shalom

Something To Make For Mothering Sunday (small cakes) - The Parish of St. Matthew With St. Paul, Winchester

Traditional British Mothering Sunday Simnel Cake - Recipe-zaar





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