Plottie
- a hot beverage usually of toddy or punch made with hot mulled wine and spices. We find this comforting concoction in Sir Walter Scott’s St. Ronan’s Well (1823): Get us a jug of mulled wine – plottie, as you call it . . . Your plottie is excellent, ever since I taught you to mix the spices in the right proportion. It was also being enjoyed in December of 1831, according to the Perthshire Advertiser: [He] very considerately invited the party into a neighbour’s house to get a “plotty” and a merry plotty they had, “little waur than a wedding.” It is a bit of an acquired taste and not universally liked; Chamber’s Journal (27 Jan 1906.) describes Rounds of beef, turkeys, and jeelies, washed down by an abominable compound of port wine negus called “plottie”.