Robert Burns and the How-to of Barrel Gauging

Last weekend saw 25th January roll around, and that meant once again commemorating the life and works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759. This time last year, only a few weeks into my tenure as a how-to-er, I blogged about haggis, that classic Scottish dish consumed at Burns suppers, which was a staple of many early modern recipe books. Twelve months on, I’m marking the occasion with a post on an item associated more directly with Burns: a how-to book owned b...