January Song Circle at SINSULL's

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:28 AM

It's MEATLOAF!! Of COURSE it's good when made of the proper ingredients. (I dunno, I just like meatloaf.)

Of course it's different if you're a vegetarian, but, then again, there are vegetarian haggises, too. (Now that's something I wouldn't touch with a fork!)

Linn

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:39 AM

Some recipes from the 1600's:

Haggas/Haggis

Robert May
the Art and Mystery of Cookery

To Make a Haggas pudding in a sheeps paunch

Take good store of parsley, savory, thyme, onions, oatmeal groats chopped together and mingled with some beef or mutton suet minced together and some cloves, mace, pepper ans salt.
fill the paunch, sow it up and boil it.
Then being boiled, serve it in a dish and cut a hole in the top of it and put in some beaten butter with two or three yolks of eggs dissolved in the butter or none.

this one may do for a fasting day, and put no suet in it, and put it in a napkin or bag .

A Haggas otherways

Steep the oatmeal overnight in warm milk, next morning boil it in cream, and being fine and thick boil'd, put beef suet to it in a dish or tray, some cloves, mace, nutmeg, salt ans some raisins of the sun, or none, and an onion, somtimes savoury, parsley and sweet marjoram,   - fill the paunch - etc.

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:59 AM

No entrails, Leo?

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: MMario
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 10:02 AM

nope - other then the paunch (stomach) which is used as the casing. And you'll notice that that can be replced by a pudding cloth. Oatmeal, onion and animal fat are the common ingredients to all period recipes I've found.

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 10:37 AM

Kendall Morse whit are ye like dae ye no ken guid vittles when ye're gie'en them.
Ah ken ye hud the onco guid taste tae mairry a wumman frae ayont thon wee bit pondie, but losh man efter daein' that shairley ye're no feart o' a wee bittie oatmeal an' some sheep's entrails. If ye bite it, it'll nae bite ye back man.
Ah'll awa and hud ma wheesht the noo, but ah cannae help but be a wee tait worrit that ye micht fade awa an' dee, fur lack o' proper nourishment.
Mind huvin' seen ye scoffin' lobsters like they wis gaun oot o' fashion, mebbes ah neednae be feart.
Giok

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 02:42 PM

Lobsters, another food item I won't touch. They eat garbage! And they smell bad while cooking. And after cooking. and while the trashed bits are sitting in the garbage can. To be honest, I think it's the smell that bothers me more than what they eat. I can't eat anything I can't get past my nose without retching.

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 04:26 PM

Giok, I don't know if I'm being told off or pitied!

Ranger 1, lobsters don't eat garbage, they eat each other. How can I dump on them for liking the same food I like?

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: karen k
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:00 PM

I won't even be in the same room as haggis - and yes I made the huge mistake one time of trying it in Scotland one time. And ranger, I'm with kendall on lobsters which are one of my favorite things.

Hope to see you all for John Roberts, weather permitting.

karen

Subject: RE: January Song Circle at SINSULL's
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 06:26 AM

I guess it's Hello and Goodbye then KarenK!
Giok ☺