Singed sheep’s heads, an old homely dish of Scotland, were carried in the procession of the Scots in London on St Andrew’s Day. The Statistical Account noted that the village of Duddingston, near Edinburgh, had long been famous for them, perhaps because the sheep of the nearby hill were killed for the town market and the heads were left behind to be eaten there.
Sheep’s heads for St Andrew
30 November · London
No longer kept
Singed sheep's heads are borne in the procession before the Scots in London, on St. Andrew's day.
From Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. 1, p. 415. Read the original
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