Countdown to Burns' Night 2015 Traditional Scottish cock-a-leekie soup Cock-a-leekie soup is for me a pretty unusual soup in more ways than one. Above all, it is a traditional soup at least two or three centuries old which has a very modern sounding ingredients list. Prunes in chicken and leek soup? It sounds like some experimental creation from the fusion craze of the 1970's, or perhaps the brainchild of a "trendy" London or Edinburgh wine bar owner. I know the idea sounds a little unorthodox - and yes, even off-putting at first - but the combination definitely works and hopefully you'll consider giving this very traditional Scottish soup recipe a go for your Burns Supper. The one significant adaptation I have made from the traditional is that I have used only chicken thighs, rather than a whole chicken. This is because I believe chicken thigh meat works far better in soup than particularly chicken breast meat, which can become stringy, tough and extremely unpal...