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Wild Harvest by Nick Nairn. Doesn't get any better than that.

MarciK -- Admittedly, I haven't cooked anything from them yet, but I got these as souvenirs of my trip to Scotland a few years ago:

A Cook's Tour of Scotland: From Barra to Brora in 120 Recipes by Sue Lawrence

Entertaining at Home in Scotland by Sue Lawrence

These two are small pamphlet-type paperbacks -- and I member-indexed them both, so you can easily see what type of recipes they contain:

Scottish Teatime Recipes by Johanna Mathie

Favourite Scottish Recipes: Traditional Caledonian Fare by Johanna Mathie

If you need any more info on the unindexed ones, let me know!

MarciK, we've recently indexed another Nick Nairn book, New Scottish Cookery: 160 New and Traditional Recipes Using the Best Produce from Scotland, that includes a recipe for Oatcakes, and I also see several other recipes that fall under the "traditional" Scottish recipes side of the subtitle, including Cullen skink, Partan bree, Clootie dumpling, and Cranachan. 

I love Claire MacDonald of MacDonald's Sweet Things discovered through my Scottish godmother who is a wonderful cook. She has a number of Scottish cookery books. 

MarciK, you might like Scottish Cookery by Catherine Brown.  It is a look at traditional ingredients and both traditional and newer recipes.  She also includes a section at the end about historic Scottish cookbooks. It will probably have to go on a list for the used book store, since I don't think it is still in print.

Zephy

Interest in this topic may well have died out but I could not resist adding a couple of my own recommendations. As a Scot I certain do often use Sue Lawrence's books and Catherine Brown - more rarely Nick Nairn - but I have also found two small books:

Simply Scottish A Wee Taste of Scotland by Karon H Grieve

Simply Scottish Cakes and Bakes by Karon H Grieve

have many very good recipies for traditional Scottish dishes and bakery items.

The two Outlander Kitchen cookbooks have a number of Scottish and other period dishes (and a few non-period dishes from the time travelers), taken directly from the books/series (as in, the recipes are for dishes mentioned as served in the books). Neither has been indexed yet, but you can check out their contents on Amazon:

Outlander Kitchen: The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook

Outlander Kitchen: To the New World and Back Again: The Second Official Outlander Companion Cookbook

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'm rather curious to try Mushroom Catsup.

I too like her, but her recipes tend to be the kind of twist on traditional to make best use of local produce that you would get in a good Scottish hotel or restaurant these days. For example one of her most recent books is The Scottish Food Bible, but it seems ot be more about Scottish produce than traditional recipes.

I inherited a copy of The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie (ed. Catherine Frere,1909, but reprinted abt 1994) - it's a fascinating compendium of recipes from Scottish country house cooking (and entertainment) at an elevated scale.  One thing you have to take into account is the change in cooking apparatus of all kinds!  Lady C died in 1897, so there were no labour saving devices in those days - but lots of wild salmon.

I married a Scot, and found Nick Nairn's New Scottish Cookery to be very good.  if you google Nick Nairn recipes the BBC Good Food website has a large number of options.  He did a wonderful tv show traveling around Scotland and cooking dishes local to each place he visited.  Looks like many of those can be found on that site.

Also, Geoffrey Smeddle of the Peat Inn wrote recipes in the Scotland Herald each week that were based on Scottish ingredients.  Google the Peat Inn and click on recipes - you will find many there.

We went to Flora Shedden's Dunkeld bakery last year and it was sublime.  She has two books out as well.

Yes, Flora Shedden's Aran cookbook is lovely.

I lived in Scotland for a couple years in 1967-69 [ Ardintiny(sp?), Argyle] and don't really recall the food being much differtent than the rest of GB.

I bought a book sometime back "The Scots Kitchen" by F.Marian McNeil. First edition in 1929, my copy says printed in 1971.  I have never cooked any thing from it.

 I guess since it's  my only, it is my favorite Scots cookbook.