Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The winter diet in Orkney; the preserving and cooking of sil...
Contributors - Ethel Findlater
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford

Summary - The winter diet in Orkney; the preserving and cooking of sillocks.

People had plenty of food for the winter in Ethel Findlater's young day, when there were many heavy snowstorms. They had milk, [oat]meal, home-made bannocks, and pork hanging in the roof, and people came around selling sillocks [young coalfish] at 7d [sevenpence] a bucketful during harvest time. Some were eaten fresh with bannocks and some salted and dried indoors. The sillocks were tied tail to tail and hung on a wire speetle [skewer] set at either side of the lum [chimney]. They were cooked on a brandiron, which hung from a hook and chain links in the chimney. Once cooked, the sillocks softened again. They were split with the thumb and eaten with a buttered bannock. Oat bannocks were also baked on the brandiron and could be square or round.


Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:03:00
Date Recorded - 1969.06.25
Date of Content - 1904 to 1919
Language - English, Scots
Genre - Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 64230
Original Tape ID - SA1969.053
Original Track ID - SA1969.53
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Item Location:
  County - Orkney
  Parish - Birsay and Harray
  Island - Orkney Mainland

Item Notes -

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/64230/1


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