PRODUCT: Scotch-Infused Chocolates For Burns Night
Chocolate for Burns Night. If you need something more simple, grab a quality dark chocolate bar (photos #1 and #2 courtesy Burdick Chocolate, photo #3 courtesy Laphroaig). |
Luke Scotch? Like chocolate? Combine both on January 25th. On that day, the birthday of the great Scottish romantic poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) is celebrated. Family and friends gather for Burns Night, an evening of good food and company. A traditional Burns’ Supper (Scottish supper) is served. It can consist of beef pie, cock-a-leekie soup, colcannon, haggis, nettles and tatties, smoked haddock and more. Perhaps, some of Burns’ most popular poems are read: A Red, Red Rose; To a Louse; To a Mouse; Tam O’Shanter, Ae Fond Kiss and perhaps most appropriate to the occasion, Address to a Haggis. You could celebrate with dinner, with a cup of tea and some shortbread, or with a dram of Scotch. But that dram would be so much better with a box of the Robert Burns Whisky Bonbons from L.A. Burdick Chocolate. Available for just a few weeks, these chocolates are infused with a variety of fine Scotches, including Macallan, Glenfarclas, Talisker, Springbank, Highland Park and Lagavulin. A half pound gift box is $42.00. Don’t tarry: Order yours today at Burdick Chocolate. Finish the evening with Burns’ most famous poem, set to a folk song: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, We twa hae run aboot the braes And ther’s a hand, my trusty friend, |
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You can sing along with this bagpipe version of Auld Lang Syne from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. HERE’S MORE ON PAIRING CHOCOLATE & SCOTCH. |