Cryin' Bannock

Cryin' Cheese

Cryin' Kebbacks

In some areas of Scotland, a woman's going into labour (confinement) was called a "cryin" (likely for obvious reasons.)

When a child was born, a special bannock called a "Cryin' Bannock" or a "Cryin' Kebback" would be made from oatmeal, milk and sugar.

The Cryin' Bannock could be given either to guests at the home, to the women attending the childbirth (men were bad luck at a birth in Scots tradition), or to the first person met on the way to church to get the child baptized.

Cryin' (crying) here does not refer to the baby: it was the word used to mean a women's confinement when in childbirth.

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