Celtic Recipes

Scotstarvit Tower is located 2 miles south of the town of Cupar, Fife, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Cùbar, Fìobha, Alba). It is between Tarvit Hill and Walton Hill, south of the River Eden, near the A916 road. The tower is thought to have been built in about 1500 by the Inglis family. It then underwent major work by Edinburgh lawyer Sir John Scot, who bought the estate in 1611. The layout of the tower is built in a L-shaped style, with a spiral stair in the small wing. It has six floors and a with the third floor having a large fireplace, three seated windows and a privy. It is thought that the fourth floor may have been the private chambers of the lord and lady of the house. The garret on the sixth floor originally had an ornate classical fireplace, indicating it may have used as John Scot's study. The tower is still largely intact and open to the public.

Tuilyies Standing Stones are a group of four standing stones located close to the A985 road about half a mile northeast of the village of Torryburn in Fife, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha, Alba). They are thought to date from about 2000 BC to 1000 BC. The largest stands at some 8 feet in height with vertical grooves, probably due to weathering. The stone also has a number of carved cup-marks. Legend has it, that along with the other three stones which stand to the south, they mark the graves of chieftains who died during a battle in ancient times.

Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum is located on Dundee Road in the centre of the village of Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Mìgeil, Siorrachd Pheairt, Alba). The Museum, which is based in a former school house, displays 26 Pictish carved stones dating from the 8th,9th and 10 centuries AD. The name of the village of Meigle is of Celtic Pictish origin and about two miles to the east is the village of Eassie, location of the Eassie Stone, a carved Pictish stone dated to the Early Middle Ages.

Castle Menzies is located just west of the village of Weem, Perthtshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Chlachain, Siorrachd Pheairt, Alba). It is not far from the market town of  Aberfeldy (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Pheallaidh) in Highland Perthshire. Castle Menzies is a sixteenth century Scottish castle and the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies. It was restored during the twentieth century by the Menzies Clan Society.  Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed for two nights in the castle on his way to the battle of Culloden in 1746. Architecturally the original Z-plan castle is an example of the transition over the years of Scottish castles from earlier rugged Highland fortresses to later mansion houses.