A SCOT'S BREAKFAST
Eighty-seven-year-old Sir Daniel Stevenson, who has been commending the old-fashioned Scottish breakfast, might claim support from rather unlikely quarters, says the "Manchester Guardian." Even Dr. Johnson, who rather dissembled his love of Scots, admitted to Boswell that there were special merits in a Scottish breakfast, while Thomas Love Peacock, in "Crochet Castle." made his Dr. Folliott, who sneered at most other things north of the Border, declare that all Scotland's defects were redeemed by "the Scotch breakfast." Possibly the type of repast which appealed to Johnson and Peacock resembled the breakfast described by Scott in "Waverley," when the hero found Miss Bradwardine presiding over tea and coffee, the table loaded with warm • bread, both of flour, oatmeal, and baiiey meal, and other varieties,*.together with eggs, reindeer ham and beef ditto, smoked salmon, and many other delicacies."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 13
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139A SCOT'S BREAKFAST Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 13
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