Scottish Poultry Stuffing Recipes

SKIRLIE (SCOTTISH OATMEAL STUFFING)

Steps:

• Melt the butter and gently fry the onion until soft.
• Stir in the oatmeal, season and cook gently for 10 minutes.

OATMEAL TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• Dice onion and celery.
• Melt butter in a large frying pan or sauce pan.
• Add onion and celery and saute until soft.
• Add oatmeal and seasonings. My mom uses poutry seasoning and that is really nice too.
• Stir until well mixed.
• Moisten with water until clumpy.
• Gently pack into the turkey cavity bottom and top.
• Roast the bird as you would with bread stuffing. It smells wonderful.
• You can also make this as a side dish if you steam it in the pan. Made like that, it's called scurly.

JEANIE'S SCOTTISH STUFFING

Steps:

• Mix well, stuff bird, and line roasting pan if desired.

OATMEAL POULTRY STUFFING

Steps:

• Dice onion to 1/4 inch pieces.
• Dice garlic to very small pieces.
• Dry mix oatmeal, salt, pepper, sage, onion, and garlic.
• Knead in the vegetable shortening, then knead in half of the butter. If consistency is not sticking together to form a clump when kneading, then continue to add butter in 1 tbs. increments. Increase amount of butter if necessary.
• Fluff mixture so it isn't hard-packed, and then stuff bird with mixture.
• On edit: I generally cook turkey slower and longer than most and add water to the pan for gravy use. I baste it several times throughout and shoot the water with a squeeze bulb type baster directly into the bird's cavity to keep the dressing moist.

SCOTTISH STYLE ROAST CHICKEN WITH OAT STUFFING HOWTOWDIE

Steps:

• FOR THE OAT STUFFING: Cook and stir onion in margarine in 10-inch skillet over medium heat until light brown. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cook and stir until oats are golden brown and crisp, 3 to 4 minutes.
• PREPARE OAT STUFFING; Fill wishbone area of chicken with stuffing. Fasten neck skin to back with skewer. Fold wings across back with tips touching. Fill body cavity lightly. (Do not pack; stuffing will expand during cooking.) Tie or skewer drumsticks to tail.
• Place chicken, breast side up, in shallow roasting pan. Arrange onions around chicken. Brush chicken and onions with margarine. Roast uncovered in 375 oven, brushing chicken and onions several times with remaining margarine, until chicken and onions are done, about 1 1/2 hours. 6 servings.
• Betty Crocker's New International Cookbook.