Chapter intro

Spoot

- razor-clam. Best fried or stewed in milk. Their presence in the Household Books of James V of Scotland suggests that they were even fit for a king in 1525:

Spouttis, bukez, solis, podlois

[spoots, buckies, soles, podlies or razor clams, winkles, sole, coalfish.]

Sillock Swithers