Tags: Food.
Fallaid in Scotland was the dusting of meal left on the baking board after a batch of bread has been baked. This dry meal was put on cakes when fired. An interesting custom used to prevail in the Outer Hebrides where any meal remaining on the board would be made into a cake in the palm of the hand and set to fire among the other and larger cakes. The custom has its origin in a superstition that doing so keeps the store of meal from wasting.