I decided to bake Pitcaithly Bannock today in honour of Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight. This is an annual celebration of all the best that Scotland has to offer from every corner of the country. To honour it I chose to share a recipe of Historical import. I have adapted the recipe from one in the book Scottish Baking, by Sue Lawrence. I picked it up a few years ago when we were in Scotland. The original recipe was written by a Margaret Stewart in 1799, so its very old. She lived in the Manse in Erskine, near Glasgow, where her husband was minister. One of my ancestors, Boyd McNayr was born near Glasgow, in the county of Lanarkshire in 1778. His father was a soldier in the Kings Navy and he went with his father to the New World when he was 8 years old, so in 1786. He was left with a family in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while his father went off to do Navy stuff. I can only assume he was in a ship wreck as his father was never...