Made to order homemade Scottish Clootie Dumpling
Our succulent, traditional Scottish Clootie Dumplings are handmade with love in the Highlands using our secret family recipe
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A Scottish Clootie Dumpling is a rich, dark, moist, steamed fruit cake, traditionally cooked by wrapping it in a cloth (a clootie) and simmering it in water.
History Scottish Clootie Dumplings
The recipe for our Premium Scottish Clootie Dumpling came from Granda Rush, a Campbell, who handed down his recipe to his granddaughter, Mandy.
Since returning from working and living abroad in Germany and Kenya, Mandy moved to the remote Highlands of Scotland, Melvaig, Wester Ross where after 12 years of speaking to her chickens, ducks and pigs, she moved to Scotland’s Sunshine Coast and the Highland Spa Town of Nairn.
Many Scots have fond memories of their Grandmothers, or mothers making Clootie Dumplings for special occasions, like birthdays, Christmas or Hogmanay (New Years Eve). An indulgent cake, of celebration.
A Clootie Dumpling is a spiced dumpling or cake, made from soaked dried fruit, wrapped in a cloth and simmered in boiling water for hours. Still wondering what it might taste like? Imagine a moist, tastier, aromatic, sweet Christmas Pudding.
Often just like a Christmas Pudding, a Scottish Clootie Dumpling had coins, six-pence or ‘tanners’ hidden inside for a lucky child or adult. The cloth or ‘clootie’ as it is called in Scots, was often or not an old clean pillowcase used again and again and passed down through generations.
When unwrapped, their is a glutenous skin which forms around the Clootie’s exterior. Traditionally the clootie was left to ‘dry oot’ by the open fire, or a rayburn but nowadays due to the lack of open fires, an oven does the job equally as well.
Any leftover Clootie Dumpling? Often left-over Clootie Dumpling was fried in butter for breakfast and served with bacon and eggs, Yum!