On this day in 1790, Flora MacDonald, the Jacobite heroine, died.

Flora is famous for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden, disguising him as her maid, Betty Burke. She died in Kingsburgh, Skye, in the same bed in which Bonnie Prince Charlie had slept during his escape. Her funeral was said to have been attended by over three thousand mourners, and three hundred gallons of whisky were drunk at it.

5th March 1953 saw The Maid of the Loch, the last Loch Lomond paddle steamer, lowered into the water.

She was a replacement for the elderly Princess May and Prince Edward, and she remains the largest vessel to have sailed Britain's inland waterways. Built by the Glasgow firm of A & J Inglis, she was dismantled and taken by rail to Balloch where she was reassembled.

Today's recipe: lunch on the run? This classic Cornish pasty is a portable main meal!

Today's recipe: make your own indulgent, fruity liqueur. Rhubarb schnapps