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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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‡PITCAITHLY BANNOCK, n.comb. Also Pitkeathly-. A round flat cake of thick shortbread containing chopped almonds and citron peel (Ags. 1966).Per. 1831 Perthshire Advertiser (22 Dec.):
He has commenced making his . . . Minced Pies, Pitkeathly Bannocks, Seed, Plum, and Diet Cakes.Fif. 1868 St. Andrews Gazette (19 Dec.):
Buns, Shortbread, and Pitcaithly Bannocks.Sc. 1929 F. M. McNeill Scots Kitchen 195:
Pitcaithly Bannock. Flour, rice flour, butter, sugar, sweet almonds, citron peel. . . . Make into a round flat cake, pinch the edges with the finger and thumb, lay on a sheet of paper on a tin, and bake in a moderate oven.Sc. 1981 R. B. Cunninghame Graham Tales of Horsemen 51:
Women in long white sleeveless smocks (their only garment) went about selling "chipa" - the Paraguayan bread of mandioca flour, flavoured with cheese, as indigestible as an old-fashioned Pitcaithly bannock ...