Suzanne James

Haggis Ingredients:
1 sheep’s stomach bag
1 sheep’s pluck - liver, lungs and heart
3 onions 
1 cup beef Suet 
1 cup  oatmeal
salt and black pepper
a pinch of cayenne
150mls of stock/gravy
 An interesting fact about Haggis is that it is the old Scottish version of mac&cheese - a simple food for peasants.  You could celebrate the tradition by making a meat pie, […]

A plaid is about 12′ long. I tried to describe how Gillian would have worn it in the book, kilted, so that she could work.  A long linen shirt was worn under the plaid. It was wound around and held tight by a wide black belt.
The plaid was long enough that it could serve as […]

The Irish cob style horse that Calum would have given Gillian in the story would have been much smaller and stockier than his war horse, which was probably the foundation of today’s Percheron horses,  The Destrier.
 
 Whether her stocky little horse could have won a race across the Scot mountain glens is not hard to imagine. The […]