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Better Call Paul Weekend Quiz: Haggis- Aye or Nay?
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Have some? Better Call Paul!


Ingredients-
1 sheep's stomach or ox secum, cleaned and thoroughly, scalded, turned inside out and soaked overnight in cold salted water
heart and lungs of one lamb
450g/1lb beef or lamb trimmings, fat and lean
2 onions, finely chopped
225g/8oz oatmeal
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground dried coriander
1 tsp mace
1 tsp nutmeg
water, enough to cook the haggis
stock from lungs and trimmings

Preparation-
-Wash the lungs, heart and liver. Place in large pan of cold water with the meat trimmings and bring to the boil. Cook for about 2 hours.

-When cooked, strain off the stock and set the stock aside.

-Mince the lungs, heart and trimmings.

-Put the minced mixture in a bowl and add the finely chopped onions, oatmeal and seasoning. Mix well and add enough stock to moisten the mixture. It should have a soft crumbly consistency.

-Spoon the mixture into the sheep's stomach, so it's just over half full. Sew up the stomach with strong thread and prick a couple of times so it doesn't explode while cooking. Put the haggis in a pan of boiling water (enough to cover it) and cook for 3 hours without a lid. Keep adding more water to keep it covered.

-To serve, cut open the haggis and spoon out the filling. Serve with neeps (mashed swede or turnip) and tatties (mashed potatoes).

Arguments Haggis For or Against?

*It's offal. It's awful.
*Official ball of Scottish Rugby
* I'll take it Very Well Done...with ketchup
*Love it Paul's on his way over with a side dish of... 5 year freezer fish
*Oatmeal adds fiber, but so does shredded steel belted radials
*Scotland's answer to Kim Jong Un's nuclear warheads
*Not kosher, not halal, Not food
*Higher quality than a 12-pack of Dollar Store brand wieners
*Served on a muffin...it's Mc Haggis!
*Yes, didn't Steve McQueen star opposite one in 1958?
* Julia Child prepared one for Christmas...or was it Halloween?
*Hannibal Lecter recommends serving at dinner parties
*Your kids will eat if you tell them Spiderman brought it for them only
*Yes, I'd buy it but only if it's made butchering the Kardashians
*Phone before midnight and we'll include a second one for free
*GeneL had one removed recently
*Official mascot when Scotland secedes from the UK
*I'll eat it if Sean Connery does.
*Paraded roasted by townsfolks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
*Attribution to Viking origins once caused war declared by Norway.
*Legendary inspiration for all Wednesday school cafeteria menus
*Scotland leads the world in haggis production, with no competition.
*Third most ordered gourmet item in hipster Williamsburg Brooklyn...and trending!
*Unexplained statement of "The real reason Scottish men wear kilts"
*Always somewhere on page 16 of most voluminous diner menus
*Did you say "sheep lungs"?

Looking forward to your response!


https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united...edinburgh/


http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/food/be...edinburgh/

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#2
Paul has actually made some from scratch a few years back, and it didn't suck, according to him. And he IS still alive, so, there is that.
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#3
Yup.. Gotta get back to trying that again!
Went too heavy on the liver last time. Just never gonna like liver, I'm afraid.
Next time, calves liver, and less of it!

Had some in Edinburgh, too. Just an appetizer portion, though, as the Fin' n' Haddie looked just TOO good to pass up!
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#4
My personal tasted used to be, if you didn't like the liver flavor, you need to add more onions. Even better if they are caramelized.
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#5
You left off the "over my dead body" option.
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#6
Had some years back on a trip through England and Scotland. Tasted like a slightly spicy hamburger helper. Wasn't that bad.
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#7
It's a great story food. So long as you are not a vegetarian...
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#8
blooz wrote:
You left off the "over my dead body" option.

In this case, not an option, only an ingredient.
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#9
sekker wrote:
It's a great story food. So long as you are not a vegetarian...

OK, so I'm now 66 years old and as far as I know I have had haggis at least twice a year for sixty years. My wife went vegetarian about 30 years ago so we bought a vegetarian version and I have to say (and I feel I have said it here in the past) the vegetarian haggis we have is the one veggie version of a traditional meat dish that is closest to the original not just in flavour but texture as well. Probably the texture is down to the oatmeal and onions and the flavour comes from the many spices. Vegetarian haggises have been made by traditional haggis makers for fifty years so they know what they are doing.

Paul
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#10
Intriguing. I should get my hands on a vegetarian haggis... my husband would be really excited. I haven't eaten meat since 1989 and he hasn't since around 2007, and I don't know that he would have really eaten all of that stuff even when he was... but he enjoys all things Scottish and also meat substitutes. I'm sure it's not hard to make... sort of like vegetarian meatloaf, I'm guessing?
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