Peats-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

Peat is formed by the partial decomposition of plants in the wet, acidic conditions of bogs.  Peats were the main form of cooking fuels historically in the Highlands of Scotland.  The process of cutting, drying, and leading peats to the homes in peat barrels was a multi-family process.  The men cut the oblong peat cubes and women and children carefully spread the very soft, newly cut peats to dry.  This picture is the peats used for cooking bannocks.

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