Spurtle smooth taper. The custom is that a spurtle should be used to stir in a clockwise direction with the right hand. Early spurtles were flat, wooden or metal instruments, with long handles and flat blades. The spatula-like utensils, known as 'Couthie Spurtles,' can be used for flipping oatcakes or making pancakes - but not for making porridge. The World Porridge Making Championship awards a "Golden Spurtle" as its main prize. Spurtle The spurtle (or "spurtel", "spurtil", "spirtle" or "spartle") is a wooden Scottish kitchen tool, dating from the fifteenth century, that is used to stir porridge, soups, stews and broths.
The Cairngorms He is not giving the Gaelic pronunciations, which could be obtained from any authority on the language, but he has collected the local-Gaelic pronunciations of these places, and place-names. For example - when discussing Beinn a' Bhùird he gives the local-pronunciation as 'Paing Bòrd' when the wider typical pronunciation is more like 'Ben a Voord'. The Cairngorms The Cairngorms is a book published in various editions from 1928, intended as wide-ranging ‘handbook’ for walkers and climbers, that describes the geology, and geography of the mountainous region of Scotland known as the Cairngorms, and its surrounding areas. Although entitled "The Cairngorms",