clapshot

[dandod]

do ye lek yir clapshot

[connieb19]

I love it. :)

[Thumper]

Yip clapshot is ace...clapshot orcadia is even better :) x

[gollach]

Yes but it's a bit early for good clapshot. Neeps need a bit of frost to improve the taste.

[thebigman]

Works well as fish cakes or at least it did tonight.

Neep wasn't the best, Tescos and it was shrinkwrapped!

[dandod]

what about stovies?

[johno]

i like it fine so long as it,s not got to much neep in it
about 20% neep & 80% tattie. :cool:

[golach]

Love Clap Shot

[helenwyler]

Clapshot:)!

Now I have a proper name for what I've been making for years and called 'mashed potato and swede'!!


I made it with Jamie Oliver's spicy lamb shanks recently....superb!

[hotrod4]

I love my clapshot, but i hate it when people make it all creamy and mushy.
I like a bit of butter and wee touch o milk but not too soggy!!!!
Wife and kids love it with haggis, I hate haggis so i have it with butchers sausages cooked in the oven then pour all the fat over the clapshot.anyone else like this? or am i just weird;)

[brokencross]

Clapshot with sausages is great (including the unhealthy fat bit)

[candyfloss]

I love it too :) but i haven't had it for a long while.

[NLP]

Had clapshot about 2 weeks ago, I don't like neeps on it's own but love clapshot

[floyed]

What is Clapshot?????:confused

[Penelope Pitstop]

Clapshot!

Now I have a proper name for what I've been making for years and called 'mashed potato and swede'!!


I made it with Jamie Oliver's spicy lamb shanks recently....superb!


Sorry I'm laughing at "mashed potato and swede":Razz ... granny would be horrified!!!!!!:eek:

[helenwyler]

Sorry I'm laughing at "mashed potato and swede" ... granny would be horrified!!!!!!

Apologies to your granny, Penelope!:eek:

I had to google clapshot...thought it might be a whisky I hadn't heard of[lol]!!

But it turns out it's an old friend!

[golach]

Clapshot:)!
Now I have a proper name for what I've been making for years and called 'mashed potato and swede'!!!

Helen no offence, but up here we make Clapshot with Potatoes ( Tatties) and Turnips (Neeps), and they are not Swedes, a totally different vegetable.

http://www.selfsufficientish.com/turnip.htm (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.selfsufficientish.com/turnip.htm)

[helenwyler]

Helen no offence, but up here we make Clapshot with Potatoes ( Tatties) and Turnips (Neeps), and they are not Swedes, a totally different vegetable.



Hahaha![lol]

Oh woops...again!!:eek:

Well, mashed poatato with swede is very good too!

Sorry, folks!

[cuddlepop]

So thats where the expression clapshot came from.:lol:

[wifie]

LOVE clapshot! Plenty butter and a bit of black pepper - mmmmmmmmmmm!
Didn't know it originated in Orkney though. (Better than mince on rolls - yuk! Sorry any Orcadians who like those!)

[quirbal]

do ye lek yir clapshot

Not particularly.

[Margaret M.]

Neeps need a bit of frost to improve the taste.


Love clapshot. Can a neep be put in the freezer for a wee bit to make it taste better?

[Anne x]

Neeps are lovely in January just right for Burns Night Haggis Neeps and Tatties Mmmm also love clapshot
My little brother used to ask for Yellow tatties with his mince and tatties that be mashed neeps

[iain]

Your all forgetting the onion,as made by my Orcadian wife

[Yoda the flump]

Yep, I love clapshot, with black pudding soup for starters.

[anneoctober]

Oh YES !! Clapshot wi butcher's sausages ( hubby likes it wi the fat sausages cooked in !) clapshot wi white pudding, best of all clapshot wi roast beef & gravy..............:grin:

[horseman]

I love it too :) but i haven't had it for a long while.

By golly!be a bit more circumspect madam;)

[JAWS]

Turnips? Swedes? Mangleworzels to the lot of you! :Razz

Oh, yes, back to the question. I love clapshot or at least the version I make I do. Perhaps an expert might have a different opinion of what i make though. :lol:

[girniegoe]

Clapshot regulars here - converted a few Leithers to it too!

Used to love salt herring and tatties too - but that's just impossible now ....

PS I know I spelt "Girniegoe" wrong!

[floyed]

could please someone explain what clapshot is, i still dont know :confused

[Thumper]

could please someone explain what clapshot is, i still dont know :confused
Floyed,clapshot is mashed tatties and neeps with some butter,milk and pepper added if you like!i also add onions cooked slowly with butter until soft and golden...yum :) x

[golach]

Clapshot regulars here - converted a few Leithers to it too!
Lol Girnegoe I have been trying to convert Leithers for over 45 years now, its a hard task, they can be a stubborn bunch, I know I married one [lol]

[helenwyler]

From The Sunday Times
December 3, 2006


Fresh and wild: neeps

When they arrived in England in the 1700s, neeps (or swedes as they are known south of the border) were used only as animal feed. In Scotland, however, neeps became a favourite, everyday vegetable, particularly after it was found their subtle flavour and texture were better when they were not too large. From The Sunday Times
December 3, 2006


To add to the confusion the Swede 'is often known as a turnip or neep in Scotland and the turnip goes by the same name.
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/turnip.htm (http://www.selfsufficientish.com/turnip.htm)

Sorry folks, but Anne's reference to her brother's liking for "yellow tatties" has got me thinking aagain:confused!

To make matters simple...what colour is clapshot?

a) white
b) cream
c) yellow/orange

I want to make it with Jamie's spicy lamb shanks for some friends soon, but can I make it with what the English call 'swede' and call it clapshot with a clear conscience[lol]?

Thanks!!

Helen

[connieb19]

Yep, I love clapshot, with black pudding soup for starters.I love black puddings but I've never heard of black pudding soup, how do you make it?

[Lolabelle]

Swede's are more globe shaped with purple one end and white the rest.
Turnips are white and look like a funny pointy white carrot.
Over here in Oz anyway!!!! :D
And only good for soup!!

[Angela]

Turnips are white and look like a funny pointy white carrot.



Lolabelle, that sounds more like a parsnip to me!!! :eek: :roll:

[Julia]

Just to clarify things

this is a neep

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/neep.jpg

and this is a swede

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/swede.jpg

in Scotland!

[Julia]

Swede's are more globe shaped with purple one end and white the rest.
Turnips are white and look like a funny pointy white carrot.
Over here in Oz anyway!!!!
And only good for soup!!


Lolabelle, that sounds more like a parsnip to me!!!

and here is a funny pointy white carrot

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/parsnip.jpg

[helenwyler]

Thankyou so much Julia!!:)

So what the Scots call neep, the English call 'swede'.

And what the Scots call 'swede', the English call turnip!

How confusing is that!:eek:

Anyway, I'm pleased to know I've been making clapshot all along, and now have a proper name for it!!

Phhhew!

[Julia]

No problem Helen, it's definitely confusing in Scotland for non-Scots, I wonder how it came about that England and Scotland swapped the names of these veg about. :confused

[mccaugm]

Clapshot:)!

Now I have a proper name for what I've been making for years and called 'mashed potato and swede'!!


I made it with Jamie Oliver's spicy lamb shanks recently....superb!

Thank God someone enlightened me I had no idea what this thread was about.

[floyed]

Floyed,clapshot is mashed tatties and neeps with some butter,milk and pepper added if you like!i also add onions cooked slowly with butter until soft and golden...yum :) x


Thank you Thumper for letting me know, i was intrigued to what you where all speaking about. I am going to try some tonight and will let you all no how i get on:)

[Thumper]

Thank you Thumper for letting me know, i was intrigued to what you where all speaking about. I am going to try some tonight and will let you all no how i get on:)
Hope you like it!I put quite a lot of butter and pepper in mine and a dash of milk...yummy and filling!I could eat it without anything else with it :) x

[Lolabelle]

Just to clarify things

this is a neep

had to remove a picture (sorry)

and this is a swede

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/swede.jpg

in Scotland!


and here is a funny pointy white carrot

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/parsnip.jpg

Ok, well it seems that it isn't in Australia that we call them different things, just in Lola land, or as Dave says, La La Land. And the pointy carroty things are parsnips. Never guess I am a chef would you. I have been blissfully calling them all the wrong names for 20 years.

[Angela]

Lol Girnegoe I have been trying to convert Leithers for over 45 years now, its a hard task, they can be a stubborn bunch, I know I married one

Golach, despite living for years in Caithness, Leith, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Edinburgh again... it was only very recently (in an Edinburgh restaurant) that I even heard of clapshot. :eek:

I'd no idea what it was -and I like to cook my tatties and neeps separate and then mash 'em up together on the plate...picky eater, eh? :lol:

[George Brims]

Just to clarify things

this is a neep

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/neep.jpg

and this is a swede

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa296/jmbudge/swede.jpg

in Scotland!

Oh no no no Julia you have that utterly wrong.

Your first picture is of a Swedish Turnip, which is also known as a Swede, or in the US and elsewhere as a Rutabaga. It is a cross between a turnip and a cabbage. If you were to Photoshop that picture and change the purple colour to green, you would have a turnip. People on Caithness farms would refer to either kind as neeps (from the old pronunciation tur-neep), but would refer to the purple one also as a Swede. I remember being sent to get "a neep" for dinner and being sent back to get the right kind when I turned up with a fine specimen of the green-topped kind. The green topped ones were only fed to animals, as they have much less flavour.

Now the wee white things with the purple top are what farm folk would call a garden turnip or garden neep, and they wouldn't be grown in long rows in fields like the others, just in the kitchen garden.

There's an article about Swedes on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga However it does contain a mistake as it incorrectly states that Mangelwurzel is the Southwest England name for a Swede. Mangelwurzels are another root vegetable altogether - a big fat cylindrical parsnip the size of a neep or bigger. One popped up in a row of Swedes we grew once, and an older man who worked for my uncle identified it, saying they used to be grown in Caithness at one time but didn't weren't a success.

[karia]

Dear Helen,

You have inadvertantly stumbled across one of the MOST argued points in all of Scotland!;)

Kariax

[honey]

clapshot and mince... HHHmmmm, my baby son loves it too!