Possibly Scotland’s most ancient cheese, crowdie is thought to date back to Viking and Pictish times, and might have disappeared completely had it not been for an enterprising farmer’s wife in ...

This sense of crowdie was not necessarily known for its luxuriousness … “Ye dour crowdy-eater.” (From Walter Scott’s Old Mortality, 1816). However, the cheese is a different matter.

Now crowdie is a delicious Scottish cheese. And so the animals scampered over and jumped up to the ledge - but only the Wolf was big enough to reach. 'Hey, save some for me!’ whispered the Fox ...