There’s the traditional clootie dumpling, containing mixed fruit, orange zest, cinnamon and ginger, infused with mixed spice (From £9, ). The flour, Clootie McToot says is “what forms the delicious ‘skin’ around the outside of the dumpling after it has been boiled”.Ĭlootie McToot sells a range of different-flavoured clootie dumplings starting at £9. Two years later, Clootie McToot was born, and in 2018, she opened her first shop in Abernethy.įor those unaware, a clootie dumpling is a Scottish fruit pudding wrapped in a freshly-boiled cloot (Scots for cloth), sprinkled with flour. Michelle Maddox’s business journey began in 2015 when she baked and sold her traditional Scottish clootie dumplings at her son’s school fete.
