The Borders is filled with regional sweets, with many famous Scottish treats originating there - Hawick balls, Berwick cockles and Moffat toffee being just a few of them - but one of the most popular is the Jethart Snail.
Cranachan, a very scottish dessert made with corn flakes, raspberries, whisky and whipped cream in a glass | © Jörg Beuge / Alamy Stock Photo. Cranachan is timeless and wonderfully delicious. Today, it is a glorious concoction of whipped cream, honey, fresh raspberries, toasted oatmeal and whisky.
Scotland's national dish is haggis, a savoury meat pudding, and it's traditionally accompanied by mashed potatoes, turnips (known as 'neeps') and a whisky sauce. Which brings us to the national drink – whisky. Over 100 distilleries in Scotland produce this amber-hued liquid, many of which can be explored on a tour.
People sing carols (wassailing) and decorate their houses with lights, putting a Christmas tree in the window and a wreath on the door. Children write letters to Santa Claus, and on Christmas Eve leave something for him to eat (like a mince pie) and drink (like sherry or whisky) when he visits in the night.
Scottish Tablet is a popular confectionary treat from Scotland, made from a base of sugar, milk, butter and condensed milk that is softly boiled, beaten then left to crystallise into a deliciously sweet treat – emphasis on sweet! It may look like fudge, but that's where the similarities end.
Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda.
Candy. A little packaged good for your candy craving would be called “sweets” or “sweeties” in Britain. Just don't call that Cadbury's bar a sweet: it's chocolate. Chocolate bars are their own category, but sweets can be any other confection, from fruity gummies to hard toffees.
Parlies are small shortbread biscuits that originated in the 18th century Edinburgh and were first supplied to the gentry and members of the Scottish Parliament from a shop in Waverley, owned by a certain Mrs. Flockhart, who was also known as Luckie Fykie.
Scotland is known for many things around the world such as tartan, whisky and haggis. However, we do in fact have a number of wonderful Scottish chocolatiers too that create delicious treats.
McCowan's Ltd was a Scottish confectionery company specialising in toffee and fudge. Their most famous product is Highland Toffee. McCowan's Highland Toffee statue The former McCowan's factory in Tryst Road Stenhousemuir.
Shortbread is perhaps the most famous snack and side dish from Scotland. This treat is a favourite well beyond Scotland – it has built a name around the whole world!
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A Scottish biscuit through and through, shortbread is eaten on special occasions and hasn't changed much from its original form in the Middle Ages. When you eat or bake traditional shortbread, you're essentially enjoying the same buttery treats that the Scots did many centuries ago.
Walker's Shortbread is a Scottish manufacturer of shortbread, biscuits, cookies and crackers. The company's well-known shortbread is baked in the Moray village of Aberlour, following a recipe developed by Joseph Walker in 1898.
'Sweetie Wives' were women who bought this sugar in bulk and boiled it into home-made sweets, which they sold at local markets. This history, alongside the colder weather in Scotland – which makes the human body crave sugary food to spike blood sugar levels – helped create a culture of Scottish sugar lovers.
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We're talking about the confectionery classics – Rhubarb & Custards, Sherbet Lemons, Chocolate Limes, Rosey Apples, Mint Humbugs, Pear Drops, Acid Drops, Barley Sugars to name a few. Proper traditional, boiled sweets in very British flavours.
“Father Christmas” is the dominant name in the UK for the bearer of gifts at Christmas, but in Scotland, he's usually just called “Santa”.
Prior to the Reformation of 1560, Christmas in Scotland, then called "Yule" (alternative spellings include Yhoill, Yuil, Ȝule and Ȝoull; see Yogh) or in Gaelic-speaking areas "Nollaig", was celebrated in a similar fashion to the rest of Catholic Europe.