The gourmet's Guide to Scotch Whisky
by Alan Reeve-Jones
Published in 1974 by Elm Tree Books for W. Grant & Sons Ltd.
| title | author | publisher | year | isbn | language | pp | book | size | edition |
| A Dram like this.. The gourmet's Guide to Scotch Whisky | Alan Reeve-Jones | Elm Tree Books for W. Grant & Sons Ltd. | 1974 | 0241022770 | english | 122 | hardcover, ill(bw+col) | 144x222 | 1st |
The introduction on the sleeve jacket reads as follows:
| Lord grant guid luck tae a'the Grants, Likewise eternal bliss, For they should sit among the sa`nts That make a dram like this. These words are inscribed below a portrait of William Grant, under whose aegis Glenfiddich whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887. 'A Dram like this...' celebrates over two hundred years of whisky-distilling by the Grant family, from 16 april 1746, the date of Culloden, when tree brothers first set up their still, to the present day, when Grant's whiskies are known world-wide, and their Glenfiddich brand has become the first malt whisky to win the Queen's Award to Industry. |
| Alan Reeve-Jones, recounting the history of 'usquebaugh' over the centuries, reveals that the actual method of production has changed very little, though the blends we drink today are - by law - matured much longer than was usual in the early days. He also supplies the formulas for a variety of whisky cocktails, including such heart-warming preparations as 'Blood and Sand' and 'Withches Brew'. |
| A special chapter on cooking with Scotch Whisky - a notions neither as sacrilegious nor as expensive as it may first seem - features a wide range of unusual and delicious recipes, among them Scotch Chicken, Auld Nick's Highland Deer, Stem Ginger in Whisky, Black Bum, Whisky d'Oranges and Whisky Marmelade, all lovingly prepared and tested by the author's wife. |
| The Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid contributes a foreword in which he states that one reason for his having lived to such a ripe - and healthy - old age is
Scotch Whisky, of which he has been a devotee for seventy years. (Hugh MacDiarmid died in 1978 at the age of 86 (note of Peadar)) |
The contents of this book consist of a foreword and introduction, 10 chapters, a bibliography and an index of recipes.
| Foreword | by Hugh MacDiarmid |
| Introduction | |
| chapter 1: | From the Mists of Antiquity |
| chapter 2: | The Middle Years |
| chapter 3: | The Ascendancy of Grant's |
| chapter 4: | The Path of Duty |
| chapter 5: | The Story of Malt |
| chapter 6: | The Story of Grain |
| chapter 7: | The Final Proof |
| chapter 8: | Cooking with Scotch Whisky |
| chapter 9: | Whisky and What? Drinks |
| chapter 10: | A Whisky Miscellany |
| Bibliography | |
| Index of Recipes | |
| Illustrations: | drawings by D.A. Mackay; 4 b&w photo's of distilleries/potstill/coopermaking and 8 colour photo's of delicious dishes. |
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