Respect, munchkins.

Today is a little taste of home for the Big Chief Coconut who is an import to this fair isle. Legend has it there were eighteen African swallows working in tandem to carry his mighty husk, they worked in shifts. It took seventy two in total.

The tattie scone is a Scottish breakfast favourite, but can be used as the basis for a light lunch or evening snack. Think poached eggs atop fresh Scottish smoked salmon with lemon basil mayo.

It is similar in texture, slightly in taste, to very smooth polenta.

So, what do we need?

Ingredients:

450g (1lb) Floury potatoes, peeled and cooked

1 tsp spoon salt

1/4 cup Coconutz Oil

Handfuls of flour until the consistency is right. Dump it in the beginning. It easily takes 2 cups.

Hardware:

Pot for spuds

Masher for spuds

Heavy bottomed frying pan, or griddle.

peeler for spuds

Colander to drain spuds

knife to cut spuds

Measuring things

Destructions:

(1.) Put kettle on to boil. Peel your spuds and chop them into rough chunks, about 2 inch squares (they cook faster).

(2.) Put your boiled water and a good pinch of salt into the pot and bring to a boil with your spuds in. Cook them for about half an hour, overdone is better than under.

(3.) Strain your tatties, pop your Coconutz Oil in with the spuds, walk away and leave them for five minutes, allowing the spuds to cool and the oil to melt.

(4.) Start adding a couple of handfuls of flour and mashing 🙂

(5.) Keep going, munchkin! It might feel like an age, but you are looking for your dough to be just at the verge of sticky.

(6.) Once your consistency is right, then throw a generous coating of flour onto your work surface and ease your stick dough ball mixture out onto it. Sprinkle a liberal amount of flour on top of the dough and work into a flat rectangle of about 1cm thickness.

(7.) Cut it up into the regulation triangles we buy in the supermarket back home!

(8.) Warm up your griddle and add a healthy knob of butter or chosen fat 🙂 Butter just reminds the big Coco of home.

(9.) What are you having with your scones? This morning was prompted by a desire for huevos rancheros, but no means of making the tortillas so the mighty, fierce and brave, tattie scone was called in. Start assembling this so it will be ready in the five minutes it will take to do your scone.

(10.) Combine your masterpiece, whatever it may be. Get yourself a knife and fork. Enjoy.

You earned it, buddy 😀

Now, brace yourself!

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