Address to a Haggis

As it is Burns Night we thought we would take the plunge and discover what a haggis tastes like, neither of us having been brave enough before to try this concoction of offal, meat, oats and spices. An original recipe runs along the lines of:

Take the liver, lungs & heart of a sheep and boil them. Mince the meats
and mix with chopped onions, toasted oatmeal, salt, pepper, and spices. Take one
properly cleaned sheep's stomach. Stuff the cleaned stomach with the prepared
contents. Sew up the stomach (leaving enough room for expansion to avoid a large messy explosion) and boil

Or you can just buy them from Waitrose!

Doesn't look too appetising...

And here's our dessert - a 'Tipsy Laird' trifle with orange and whisky.

The Feast is arranged...

Before the meal is begun, the Selkirk Grace is read:

Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it, but we hae meat and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit

And then the serious work of addressing the haggis begins (it's quite long and very Scottish!), before it is stabbed with a dagger (kitchen knife).

And here are the (nearly) empty plates, prooving the full consumption of haggis. Actually it wasn't bad at all, probably made with better quality meats and synthetic skin these days!