{"id":2532,"date":"2011-01-02T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:23:56","slug":"atholl-brose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"Atholl Brose"},"content":{"rendered":"

O.K. January is Oatmeal Month<\/a> and if you say to me that you hate Oatmeal, let me say to you, that you’ve never had Atholl Brose (pronounced A thole brosey). Here are the components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Brose<\/b> is a Scots word for an uncooked form of porridge. Oatmeal is mixed with boiling water and allowed to stand for a short time. It is then eaten with salt, butter and milk. Brose first appeared in the15th century, when shepherds would carry a mixture of oatmeal and water out to the hills to work. The agitation of the mixture created the brose  In addition to oats, brose could be made with barley meal, peasemeal, or a mixture of several meals. Other ingredients, such as nettle tops, kale, and turnip were added as well. Somehow, I think that I would leave off the nettle, kale and turnip, as delicious as they may sound \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

OK, that’s the brose explained, but what about the Atholl?
\nAtholl Brose<\/b> a.k.a. Athol Brose<\/b>, Athole Brose<\/b> is a Scottish drink obtained by mixing oatmeal brose (see above) with honey<\/a>, whiskey, and sometimes cream (particularly on festive occasions). When made with cream the drink is somewhat like Bailey’s Irish Cream. Atholl Brose has also become an alternative name for the dessert Cranachan (with or without raspberries), which uses the same ingredients as the drink. I love the versatility here! If you don’t want to drink it, you can eat it for dessert!<\/p>\n

According to legend, the drink is named after the first Earl of Atholl<\/a>, who quashed a Highland rebellion in 1475 by filling the rebel leader’s well with a potent mixture of AB, making him very vulnerable! <\/p>\n

Perhaps the Scottish version of a Molotov Cocktail!<\/p>\n

Here are the directions:<\/p>\n