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Hotchpotch recipe
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'The True ordering of Bees'
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Edinburgh vegetable and fish market.
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John Reid, 'The Scots Gard'ner', 1721
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Photograph of Stornoway gutters, 1910
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Fishmonger's bill, Edinburgh
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Real India curry powder
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'To mak sausages'
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Porter, fishwoman and journeyman flesher, Auld Reekie
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'The Compleat Confectioner and Family Cook', 1809
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'Fifty Salads', 1892
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Colour plate from Margaret Black's Superior Cookery published in 1887
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'A bird's eye view'
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'Salt Woman, Water man and Fish woman'
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'A Scots dish called green broth', 1753
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Bill to Robert Dalrymple for fruit and vegetables, 1736
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'A New Method of Cookery'
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John Shirley, 'The Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet', 1687
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Shortbread recipe
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A Catalogue of New Garden Seeds
Gallery
From a 17 th century beekeeping manual to a 20th century photograph of fish gutters in Stornoway, this gallery is a snapshot of the historic diversity of both Scottish produce and the occupations involved in bringing these foodstuffs to the public.
'Milk-meats and oatmeal, several ways prepared, and kail and roots dressed in several manners, is the constant diet of the poor people...with this kind of food they enjoy a better state of health than their southern neighbours.'