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This is it. The Clootie is on tae bile!
I'm a bag of nerves. I mixed up the ingredients, nae bither. But the next bit, spreading the cloot with flour - well, how much? And how much is too much? Ok, I've made a guess and done that bit.
Scooped the dumpling mixture into the cloot and gather the cloth, leaving space for expansion before tying with string. How much space? Too much will give the clootie a weird shape, but what effect will too little have? OMG.....am I doing this right?
Okay. Put a saucer in the pan of boiling water. Check. Suspend the cloot from a wooden spoon handle across the top of the pan ensuring that all of your fingers range from lightly steamed to severely scalded. Check. That was the most difficult part.
Boil for 2 to 3 hours.....how do I know when two hours is enough, or three? I don't want to open my carefully tied cloot and end up with a bag of grey mush. What does a cooked clootie look like when hidden away in a cloth bag?
On top of this worry, I'm worried that I have left it too late to make another if this yin goes wrang. I meant to start this weeks ago, but real life got in the way. Somewhere, up there, my Scottish Granny is laughing at me....I even telephoned my Mum for advice, but she could only share my worries.
Well. Fingers crossed.
Jules
I'm a bag of nerves. I mixed up the ingredients, nae bither. But the next bit, spreading the cloot with flour - well, how much? And how much is too much? Ok, I've made a guess and done that bit.
Scooped the dumpling mixture into the cloot and gather the cloth, leaving space for expansion before tying with string. How much space? Too much will give the clootie a weird shape, but what effect will too little have? OMG.....am I doing this right?
Okay. Put a saucer in the pan of boiling water. Check. Suspend the cloot from a wooden spoon handle across the top of the pan ensuring that all of your fingers range from lightly steamed to severely scalded. Check. That was the most difficult part.
Boil for 2 to 3 hours.....how do I know when two hours is enough, or three? I don't want to open my carefully tied cloot and end up with a bag of grey mush. What does a cooked clootie look like when hidden away in a cloth bag?
On top of this worry, I'm worried that I have left it too late to make another if this yin goes wrang. I meant to start this weeks ago, but real life got in the way. Somewhere, up there, my Scottish Granny is laughing at me....I even telephoned my Mum for advice, but she could only share my worries.
Well. Fingers crossed.
Jules
You don't look Jules, you prod.
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