Food+&+drink

Orkney Meat In Orkney we have lots of farms. Cows and sheep and pigs are made of meat. We cook the meat to eat. We get the meat from the shops. Orkney meat is scrumptious. Lots of people buy Orkney meat. Orkney meat is very popular but it is sad because we have to kill the animals to make meat.

= = Orkney Fish Orkney fish you need to go on a boat to catch it. Class 3/4 had a food tasting the teachers came too. We had salmon. We had more fish and we had shortbread. Lots more food.

(Molly H) My mum makes Russell’s Orkney cheese. It was my grandma Russell’s recipe. She lived in Shapinsay (one of Orkney’s north islands). It is made of Crantit dairy milk which is made in Orkney a few miles away from our school, salt and rennet. She has made cheese for 5 years. She has a dairy outside our house which used to be a garage.You can buy the cheese from Shearers, Mills, Baikies, Groundwaters and Smiddies, Argos the baker and Bruces stores. It is tasty with oatcakes or bere bannocks (a flat scone made of beremeal). We had a food tasting of Orkney food a few weeks ago and we made bere bannocks and it was a success. They were delicious, everybody commented on them. That was good. They were yummy.

Orkney fudge is made in Stromness. Stromness is in the west mainland. It is the second town. It has its own secondary school. You get the boat from Stromness to Graemsay. People make the fudge in to fudge Orkney ice cream or Orkney fudge cheese cake. I think Orkney fudge ice cream is good J. The factory is called the Orkney fudge factory. Westray air is bottled in Westray. Our class had Westray air at our local food tasting. It tasted of air (obviously) it didn’t taste different to Kirkwall air. The head teacher had the Westray air it made her feel  good. 

on the 25th january every year we have a burns supper it is usally mince,haggis and clapshot we had it for school dinners on burns day and it was yummy in my tummy