and the oldest recipes may even call for a spurtle, a Scottish wooden implement used for stirring. Now, it's commonly cooked ...

If you make porridge a regular part of your diet ... And Shirley Spear, doyenne of Scottish chefs, makes it pure and simple: oats, water and salt — and showed us all what simple perfection ...

Oatcakes are another cupboard staple in the Scottish household ... the quicker the cooking time. That's why the instant porridge varieties, which are made from fine oats, tend to have an almost ...