SC - Re: sca-cooks Re[2]: Atholbrose.

[Aonghas MacLeoid (B.G. Morris)]

Please refer to my homepage (address to be found under my signature) and
click on the *highlighted* haggis, to find out more info on this most
famous of Scottish dishes.

Regards,

Aonghas

May thee hae meikle feres,
Kennin fae, A guid burdie
An ding a fou coggie.......
......Lang May Thee Lum Reek!!!!!!

hylndr at ionline.net
http://www.ionline.net/~hylndr/

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> From: Philip W. Troy <troy at asan.com>
> To: sca-cooks at eden.com
> Subject: Re: sca-cooks Re[2]: Atholbrose.
> Date: Sunday, April 13, 1997 9:32 PM
> 
> The Cheshire Cat wrote:
> 
> Re athelbrose...
> 
> >    The only reason I asked is because there is a Celtic event in Lochac
> > sometime in the near future and, while I'm not the autocrat (not in the
> > right geographic region)  I have been asked to find out about various
> > things like the adressing of the Haggis and other odd things.
> 
> To borrow from Art Carney: "Hel-looooooooo, haggis!"
> 
> > I read that
> > Athol Brose can be substituted for plain Whisky, and what I knew
sounded
> > much more fun.
> 
> One of the last times I served haggis at an event, I led the servers out
> of the kitchen, called for silence, and explained the ancient traditions
> involved with the service of this most ancient dish. I spoke of the
> habit of serving the haggis flaming (while lighting the sparklers stuck
> into the one for high table), of the tradition of serving it with a wee
> dram of fine malt uiskebagh (while pouring a shot of 15-year-old
> Laphraoig), of serving it accompanied  by the skirling of the pipes
> (signalling for the kazoo ensemble to begin playing "Innagadda Davida"),
> drank the shot, and returned to the kitchen with my bottle.
> 
> It was a disgrace and an outrage, and everyone appeared to be having a
> blast. 
> 
> Oh, and they liked the haggis, too.
> 
> Adamantius