Do you have a family recipe to share with BBC Alba?

BBC Alba is calling on Scots to dig out their old recipe books.

 

Makers of the popular baking series Cidsin Granaidh Chalanais (Granny’s Kitchen) is appealing for people to share their cherished, inherited recipes passed down the generations.

 

Hand-written or even typed up collections of recipes gathered by aunties, grandparents or other relatives are just what the show is looking for.

 

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Presented by Gregor Macleod, the Caledonia TV-produced series returns in 2023, as he cooks and bakes up a storm from his kitchen in Callanish, Lewis and all over Scotland.

 

Gregor enjoyed the experience of cooking through his granny’s old recipe book, in which she had more than 50 handwritten recipes, so much, that now he wants to find out what culinary delights have been passed down by the rest of the country from their friends and family.

 

That’s where Gregor needs your help as he calls on you to look out your favourite old cookbooks or collected recipes for the new series.

 

Anything goes - from savoury bites to sweet treats and everything in between.

 

Gregor cooked classic recipes like braised oxtail in the first series of Granny’s Kitchen.

 

These are the tried and tested recipes passed down through your family or scribbled on the back of a jotter.

 

BBC ALBA is looking for a snapshot of Scotland’s larder - from Gaelic speakers, ideally.

 

Gregor learned so much about ingredients and cooking techniques of days gone by from his granny, like carrageen seaweed and oxtail, and he knows there is more out there.

 

Gregor said: 'I learned so much about ingredients and cooking techniques of days gone by through my granny and the precious hand-written recipe books she passed down to me.

 

'From her recipes, I learned to cook and bake with ingredients like carragreen seaweed and oxtail. I know there will be plenty more treasures out there in books handed down by friends and family across the country.'

 

To tell Caledonia TV about your old recipe books, email info@caledonia.tv and leave your name and phone number.

 

Please submit as many details as possible about the history of your recipe books and the recipes within them, as well any related photographs.

 

Meanwhile, Gregor is back with another BBC ALBA winter warmer as he returns with a new series of Fuine visiting home bakers from all over the Western Isles to bake - and sample - the recipes they can always depend upon, the true crowd-pleasers around the table.

 

The six-part Caledonia TV production is a warm hug on a cold night with a gooey centre bursting with flavour.

 

Check out Fuine on Fridays at 8.30pm. Episodes will be on BBC iPlayer for 30 days after first broadcast.

 

 

Caption: Presented by Gregor Macleod, the Caledonia TV-produced series returns in 2023, as he cooks and bakes up a storm from his kitchen in Callanish, Lewis, and all over Scotland.

 

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