Jacobite GlassWest Highland Museum This drinking glass engraved with Jacobite symbols. Drinking toasts to the exiled Stuart dynasty was an important part of Jacobite secret culture. Jacobites would often pass their glass over a water bowl to toast their ‘King...
Photograph Taken In Dingwall Sheriff CourtGairloch Museum Content warning. Some visitors may find this object upsetting. The Loch Maree Hotel was the site of the first recorded case of botulism in the UK. Between the 15th and 21st August 1922, eight people staying...
Selkirk Grace Box in GaelicGairloch Museum This decorative wooden board has been inscribed with a Gaelic translation of the words of the Selkirk Grace, usually attributed to Scottish Bard Robert Burns: Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want...
Egg Preserver Gairloch Museum This ordinary galvanised bucket had an important culinary use. With a wire basket and tongs, it was actually used for ‘water glassing’ eggs. Eggs would be submerged in a pickling lime solution. This solution is made by heating limestone...
Cream Skimmer Gairloch Museum This wonderful kitchen device for skimming the cream from milk has been fashioned from a scallop shell drilled with holes. It shows an inventive use of natural materials and would have been used for making butter and crowdie cheese. ...
