Haggis! - Page 3

Feek · 19-03-2008, 15:40

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Originally Posted by Blackstar

Its really nice, i was pleasantly surprised when i tried it.

It's fantastic! nom nom nom

No pics because I've eaten it

Kitten · 03-08-2009, 10:15

holy thread revival!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180791.stm

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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."

Fayshun · 03-08-2009, 10:24

*Haggis War ensues*

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.

Garp · 03-08-2009, 17:18

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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