{"id":14947,"date":"2012-06-12T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2012-06-12T00:05:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:05:40","slug":"scotch-woodcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/14947","title":{"rendered":"scotch woodcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGirls, do I have\u00a0some words to dish to you about.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe I have a dish to have a word with you about.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of something called scotch woodcock?<\/p>\n<p>Hint: It\u2019s food.<\/p>\n<p>Another hint: The recipe calls for no scotch (disappointing), and no woodcock (not disappointing).<\/p>\n<p>So, here\u2019s what it is. Ready?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scotch woodcock is a traditional Scottish dish of creamy scrambled eggs and anchovy paste on hot, buttered toast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"gleaming_word-scotch_woodcock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gleaming_word-scotch_woodcock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"316\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scotch Woodcock. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Karenjc<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not that a drunken bird would be any better, but \u2026 <em>eww<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Victorian era savory \u201ctreat\u201d that was often served after a meal at places like the House of Commons and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, those crazy Victorians.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll take my scrambled eggs and buttered toast <em>without<\/em> the anchovies, please.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll take dessert instead!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls, do I have\u00a0some words to dish to you about. Or, maybe I have a dish to have a word with you about. Actually, it\u2019s both. Have you ever heard of something called scotch woodcock? Hint: It\u2019s food. Another hint: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/14947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/14947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[370,802],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-scotch-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}