Fraser's Hash o' Haggis Recipes
Remember kids: real haggis makers are pros--do not try this at home!
New Hundred Pounder Haggis Recipe
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Recipe from Kirsty's Secrets by Marguerite Alexander, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1958.The recipe as given to Kirsty read:
Procure the large stomach bag of a sheep, also one of the smaller bags called the King's Hood, together
with the pluck, which is the lights, liver and heart. the bags must
be well washed, first in cold water, then plunged in boiling water and
scraped, care being taken of the large bag which should lie and soak
in cold water with a little salt all night. Wash also the pluck. You
will now boil the small bag along with the pluck, in boiling leave the
windpipe attached and let the end of it hang over the edge of the pot,
so that impurities may pass freely out. Boil for an hour and a half.
Remove from pot. Cut away the windpipe and any bits of skin or gristle
that seem improper.
Grate the quarter of the liver and mince the heart, lights and small bag and half a pound of beef suet very fine. Mix with two cups of oatmeal browned in the oven, and two teaspoonsful of black ground pepper and salt. Add half a pint of the liquor in which the pluck was boiled, stir all together, then place in the large bag, filling only a little more than half, for if crammed too full it will burst with a swelling of the meal and meat. Sew up the bag with needle and thread. Place the haggis on a plate and still on the plate put it in a pan of boiling water and cook for three hours, prickng occasionally with a large needle as it swells to allow the air to escape. If the bag appears thin tie in a cloth as well.
The haggis was served in a napkin on a dish without garnish or gravy,
it being consider rich enough in itself.
Other Haggis Sites and Sightings:
Tom Kreitzberg's
Haggis collection
[updated with Internet Archive site data--site is no longer active]
Go roamin' in the gloamin' or at least through the haggis and heather.
After all, oatmeal is good for the skin.
HEWN: Haggis
Early Warning Notification... -- A page of great importance to our national
security here in the states -- let other nations take heed! - Covers
other culinary threats as well. [link updated July 2013 and again January 2016]
Perhaps against my better judgment - I am going to add a small Haggis Poems and Poetrocities page. Not for the squeamish!
Much safer--if still under heavy construction: check out my Celtic
Miscellany Page Wherever the Gael Winds
Blow!.
Back to the fearsome. A gif of a young male haggis. No guns--we are dealing with an endangered species!!! (I tried to get in touch with Andy Miller (his notes are quoted) who captured this "uh, event" to check that he has no objection to its appearing here. "This is a picture of a real LIVING HAGGIS! Caught in the Kilpatrick Hills by the River Clyde, and photographed in our Lab at the Haggis Research Institute at Erskine. This is the only male we have caught alive in the last 17 years." (Voted the #1 ficticious animal of the year on Compuserve in 1993.)
Last updated December 2, 1999 with a single link updated on July 20, 2013
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