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For ages I've been able to get McSweens from a local butcher but they stopped stocking it a while back and I've been reduced to munching on the Hall's Haggis that Tesco stock. It's not a particularly great haggis but it's kept me at least slightly satisfied.
But our local Tesco hasn't had any in stock since before Burns night. This is not good and I'm suffering severe withdrawal symptoms.
So today I ordered the following online *love the internet*
2 x Warrior - "Prepared in a natural casing, this is THE traditional haggis designed with the purist in mind. It is prepared in exactly the same way as the Chieftan and Sma'Chief alike but is simply smaller in size. Weighing just 500 grams it will serve up to 2 people as a main course or 4 as a starter. Delivered in a 'Cook-In bag'."
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1 x Smoked Monarch - "Game haggis made from the finest Highland Venison from Her Majesty The Queen's Balmoral Estates. Prepared in a natural casing, this haggis has a rich flavour all of its own. Weighing 500grams, it will serve up to 2 people as a main course or 4 as a starter."
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Both from McKean's of Scotland (http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/)
I'm all excited now and looking forward to some decent haggis after such a long time!
Yummy, I've not had haggis for ages!
I did manage to get a sly haggis supper in when I was Aberdoom for a wedding in October last year.
I've never had Haggis.
Maybe I should research places to slot in a Haggis supper while in Edinburgh in June. :)
Blackstar
18-03-2008, 21:56
If you'd asked :p
Mark, you don't research places to get a haggis supper, you stumble into a chippie and slur your order and ask for sauce if you are brave enough. You will get the same thing everywhere, haggis with chips.
I love haggis and cheese toasties.
I've never had Haggis.
Maybe I should research places to slot in a Haggis supper while in Edinburgh in June. :)
some B&Bs do a Scottish Breakfast, which seems to be an English breakfast + Haggis as best as I can tell :)
Stan_Lite
18-03-2008, 22:04
You'll have to let me know how they are Feek. All I can get down here is Halls haggis from Tescos too and although it satisfies the urges, it's far from ideal. A decent online source would be excellent.
I'm sorry but I giggled at the fact that the vegetarian one is called the Jessie :o
Blackstar
18-03-2008, 22:22
some B&Bs do a Scottish Breakfast, which seems to be an English breakfast + Haggis as best as I can tell :)
And black pudding and square sausage. :)
Blackstar
18-03-2008, 22:45
get a mock chop while your at it!
KING RIB!! OM NOM NOM NOM
(I'm not even sure it comes from all one animal)
Hmmmm, I think I've found a niche in the market. Seriously considering starting up a Haggis farm to Supply the Mids and South with top quality, fresh, prime Haggis. Free range of course!! :)
If you'd asked :p
Mark, you don't research places to get a haggis supper, you stumble into a chippie and slur your order and ask for sauce if you are brave enough. You will get the same thing everywhere, haggis with chips.
I love haggis and cheese toasties.
Ooooo, never tried the idea of putting haggis into a toastie, I like the sound of that! I am going to do haggis pizza though :)
I'm quite happy to stumble into a scottish chippie and have haggis pudding and chips and have been known to do so a few times! I've tried the sauce though but wasn't too keen on that.
some B&Bs do a Scottish Breakfast, which seems to be an English breakfast + Haggis as best as I can tell :)
The Hilton range of hotels used to offer haggis at breakfast time, I've had it a few times at the Hilton in Corby which is no longer a Hilton and doesn't do haggis any more :(
You'll have to let me know how they are Feek. All I can get down here is Halls haggis from Tescos too and although it satisfies the urges, it's far from ideal. A decent online source would be excellent.
Wilco :D
Blackstar
18-03-2008, 23:01
Ooooo, never tried the idea of putting haggis into a toastie, I like the sound of that! I am going to do haggis pizza though :)
Its really nice, i was pleasantly surprised when i tried it.
I'm sorry but I giggled at the fact that the vegetarian one is called the Jessie :o
I noticed that as well :D
Damn you for beating me there :evil:
some B&Bs do a Scottish Breakfast, which seems to be an English breakfast + Haggis as best as I can tell :)
Just don't, whatever you do, refer to an English breakfast. I'm not sure what happens but I've read the warnings and they don't sound pleasant. :shocked: :evil: :)
I remembered I have this monstrous looking thing in a cupboard that Mrs. Feek bought ages ago. This should do the job for haggis and cheese toasties.
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Stan_Lite
19-03-2008, 00:29
I've seen tinned haggis in the supermarket before but never plucked up the courage to try it.
Mark, you don't research places to get a haggis supper, you stumble into a chippie and slur your order and ask for sauce if you are brave enough.
don't let her evil east coast ways trick you! Chip sauce is a trap. a horrible vinegary watery trap. you won't like it, no one does.
Stan_Lite
19-03-2008, 10:08
don't let her evil east coast ways trick you! Chip sauce is a trap. a horrible vinegary watery trap. you won't like it, no one does.
Liar :p
Embra chippie sauce is yummy - the Weegies are just jealous because they didn't think about it :D
you won't like it
I know, but you didn't need to tell me that. :p
Any vinegar-based thing on chips. Wrong. :puke: :)
Its really nice, i was pleasantly surprised when i tried it.
It's fantastic! nom nom nom
No pics because I've eaten it :D
holy thread revival!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180791.stm
A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, an historian has claimed.
Historian Catherine Brown told the Daily Telegraph that she found references to the dish inside a 1616 book called The English Hus-Wife.
The title would pre-date Robert Burns' poem To A Haggis by 171 years.
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Ms Brown said the book, by Gervase Markham, indicates that haggis was first eaten in England and subsequently popularised by the Scots.
She told the paper that the first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747.
"It was originally an English dish. In 1615, Gervase Markham says that it is very popular among all people in England," she said.
"By the middle of the 18th century another English cookery writer, Hannah Glasse, has a recipe that she calls Scotch haggis, the haggis that we know today."
Pumpkinstew
03-08-2009, 13:34
Ooooo, crikey.
I tried to tell someone in Scotland that Wilson was an Anglo-Saxon name last week and he just looked baffled and roared 'Et's goot a bloody tartan.' and stomped off to find a claymore.
Interestingly one of the places we stayed in had a chef who was also a food historian and he told us that Creme Brulee was originally called Cambridge Burned Cream before the garlic munchers put a bag over it's head and jumped on a ship to Calais with the recipe.
I wonder if I should send that link up to him.
The Markham family have always been fairly prominent up in Carlisle sort of area, still are to this day. Wouldn't be beyond the pale for it to have taken a quick hop over the border.
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