Thread: Burns Night 2009

My grandmother came over to the U.S. in the 20's from Scotland. She would make Hagis for us when I was a kid. I never learned what I was eating until I was 10 or 11 years old. Its been a long time since I've had any. Your picture looks like the way she used to serve it. Thanks ..

Haggis and a nice peaty single-malt....mmmmmm

Haggis is not any more more "gross" than any other sausage-type food:

Take meat
Add spices, maybe filler
Grind
Stuff into sterilized intestinal track casings
Tie off into section or leave unties for longer sections
Fry, boil, grill
Serve and enjoy

Generic Hot Dogs
Bratwurst
Italian/Polish sausages
Frankfurters
Nurnberger
Wiener
Weisswurst
Blutwurst
etc.

The stomach is just a really big sausage casing. Look at full length Italian sausages being grilled during a festival....2-3 feet of sausage coiled in a circle on a grill....looks like a big bunch of instetines to me...and I'll have mine with the peppers and onions, thank you!

as a former resident of NE scotland this is one dish that I miss ALOT, to me there is nothing that comes close to reminding me of home, in a culinary sense. I have hunted high and low and hoped that I can find somewhere in SC/NC that i can purchase it. I did find a place in Texas but i would beed to order a fair size of Pudding.

Thank you for reminding me of what I am missing but i did don the kilt on friday for work!!

Regards and thank you, simon

Originally Posted by Galopede

I prefer faggots and peas myself.

Gareth

Does someone need to explain this to our American forum colleagues?

Originally Posted by majurey

Does someone need to explain this to our American forum colleagues?

Thanks Mark