"Get your haggis, right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds. Good for what ails ya!"
* 1 sheep’s lung (illegal in the U.S.; may be omitted if not available)
* 1 sheep’s stomach
* 1 sheep heart
* 1 sheep liver
* 1/2 lb fresh suet (kidney leaf fat is preferred)
* 3/4 cup oatmeal (the ground type, NOT the Quaker Oats type!)
* 3 onions, finely chopped
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
* 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
* 3/4 cup stock
Wash lungs and stomach well, rub with salt and rinse. Remove membranes and excess fat. Soak in cold salted water for several hours. Turn stomach inside out for stuffing.
Cover heart and liver with cold water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Chop heart and coarsely grate liver. Toast oatmeal in a skillet on top of the stove, stirring frequently, until golden. Combine all ingredients and mix well. Loosely pack mixture into stomach, about two-thirds full. Remember, oatmeal expands in cooking.
Press any air out of stomach and truss securely. Put into boiling water to cover. Simmer for 3 hours, uncovered, adding more water as needed to maintain water level. Prick stomach several times with a sharp needle when it begins to swell; this keeps the bag from bursting. Place on a hot platter, removing trussing strings. Serve with a spoon. Ceremoniously served with “neeps, tatties and nips” — mashed turnips, mashed potatoes, nips of whiskey.
Haggis isn’t much different than hot dogs and sausages in “natural casing”, which is intestines.
In other countries, offal is the basis of some gourmet dishes, such as sweetbreads (thymus gland of a calf), calf brains with brown butter, etc. Then there’s European peasant food: pigs feet, head cheese, and blood sausage.
sounds offal
“believes the American market could be a very lucrative one.”
If true, we have strong, revolting, evidence of the decline of intelligence in the American voter.
(#2 = balut)
(#1 = lutefisk)
Is the consensus that haggis is disgusting and therefore should be illegal to import?
No, dear God the humanity. Caving to the haggis eaters will cause the downfall of American society. The little pouches will be everywhere. Of the smell......s/
I’ve never eaten Haggis, but I think I stepped in some once.
It could be worse. It could be balut. Look it up and prepare to vomit.
When I visited Edinburgh a few years ago I saw a blatant attempt to win American tourists over to haggis. A stand on the Royal Mile was selling haggis burgers. Sorry, no sale. I had a fine non-haggis lunch at the World’s End pub instead.
One of the members of the pipe band I’m in always brings flour tortillas to Burns Nicht.
Haggis fajitas, mmmmmmmmmmm...
Somehow I don't see McHaggis replacing Chicken McNuggets in the Happy Meal.
food ping
I love my Scottish heritage and I visited Scotland back in 2001. However, I did not eat Haggis there and I would not eat one here. In fact, upon returning to the states and about to clear customs, a customs officer asked us I we were bring any back!
I told him the same thing. Give me a Talisker instead.
*Freeper Kitchen Ping**
"Get your haggis, right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds. Good for what ails ya!"
Given the replies here, it seems that America’s the land of the free, home of the squeamish.