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- noun A traditional
Scottish dessert made withwhipped cream ,whisky ,oatmeal ,honey , andraspberries
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Examples
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Dessert for Laura and me was the cranachan, which is essentially whisky and whipped cream with berries and oatmeal.
Hugo nominating ballot shunn 2007
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Dessert for Laura and me was the cranachan, which is essentially whisky and whipped cream with berries and oatmeal.
Hugo nominating ballot shunn 2007
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In her chocolate cranachan the toasted rolled oats are mixed with chopped toasted hazelnuts, light muscovado sugar and chocolate before being folded into the cream and raspberries.
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There was a huge choice for breakfast and I had a bowl of fresh fruit and Crunchy Autumn Yogurt which was a sort of luxury breakfast cranachan – delicious, but again probably a poor pre-race choice.
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There was a huge choice for breakfast and I had a bowl of fresh fruit and Crunchy Autumn Yogurt which was a sort of luxury breakfast cranachan – delicious, but again probably a poor pre-race choice.
As flat as it gets 2009
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The lure, according to Ginny, is "wholesome Scottish oats, and local recipes like cranachan - a swirl of raspberries, honey and cream sprinkled with toasted oats - or the punchier whisky and honey, that other great Scottish combination."
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Miitra, 27, failed to impress judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with her dish of cranachan panna cotta, with floating islands, raspberry coulis and shortbread.
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