Athole Brose (Very Old)

Aye since he wore the tartan trews
He dearly lo'ed the Athole Brose. -Neil Gow.

Heather honey, whisky, cold water. Put a pound of dripped honey into a basin and add sufficient cold water to dissolve it (about a teacupful). Stir with a silver spoon, and when the water and the honey are well mixed, add gradually one and a half pints of whisky, alias mountain dew. Stir briskly till a froth begins to rise. Bottle and keep tightly corked.

It is sometimes used in the Highlands as a luxury, and sometimes as a specific for a cold. Meal is occasionally substituted for honey. The original Athole brose consisted of oatmeal and whisky. The yolk of an egg is sometimes beat up with the brose. On Hogmanay, the Athole Brose, carried by two subalterns and preceded by a piper and all the officers, is carried to the sergeants mess of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, where a quaich is filled for each officer and sergeant.

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