Which popular Scottish dessert is made with oats, cream, berries and whisky and often eaten at a Burns Supper?
Cranachan Cranachan Cranachan ( ) is a traditional Scottish dessert. It was originally a celebration of harvest. The dish was historically served in the summer as raspberry harvest is in June. The dessert of cream and fresh seasonal raspberries is bolstered by Scottish oats and whisky. The dessert is 'the uncontested king of Scottish dessert'. Cranachan owes its origins to crowdie. A popular breakfast was crowdie cheese with lightly toasted oatmeal, cream, and local honey. Raspberries, when in season, might be added to the breakfast. Cranachan is now served all year round, and typically on special occasions. A traditional way to
Whisky sauce is a relatively modern invention. However the documentation of whisky in savoury cooking goes back to at least Victorian times, where its use in meals is documented in Isabella Beeton's famous cookery book Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. In recent times, Whisky sauce and barbeque sauces have been combined, in order to create whisky barbeque sauces such as those by Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's. Due to the distinctly Scottish nature of the sauce, recipes including whisky sauce have been popularised as dishes to be eaten on Burns supper along with the traditional main course of Haggis. Whisky sauce