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[butata dubh]
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before the Champion was introduced well over 60 years ago, a dark blue variety with blue streaked flesh, called butata dubh, was generally used.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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[butata]
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potatoes are never called buntata in Assynt. Always butata. The first potatoes known in Europe were brought by the Spaniards from Quito, Peru in 1553 and were known as “battata”. Perhaps the Assynt people are Spaniards and not descended from the MacLeods of Lewis and the MacKenzies of Gairloch as we were always led to believe!!!
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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butata agus feooil
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potatoes and meat. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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butata agus scadan
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potatoes and herring. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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butata dubh
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the old blue variety. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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butata geal
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favourite variety was the Champion before Kerr’s Pink. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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garrag siol butata
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cutting seed potatoes. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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glanig a butata
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cleaning the potatoes. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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poul butata
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pit – it was constructed by digging an oblong area about two yards long and 6" deep and two to three ft wide. Potatoes built up to a sharp point and covered with turf “scranan” – the heather side to the potatoes – and then covered by about 12" soil. About 3' high. In some sandy ground a round circular pit was dug about 5' deep and 3' dia. Took about 10 creels of potatoes. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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sgriobag a butata
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running the grubber or the hoe between rows. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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talamh “butata”
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potato field. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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toaig a butata
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earthing potatoes. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
