SC - Pennsic Potluck

[Stefan li Rous]

Badger said:
> That's O.K. Brighid, I didn't know I was
> going to do the haggis until I was asked to at the butchering. I think it
> turned out O.K., didn't it?

Yes, I thought it was good.  That stomach was a lot bigger and held a
lot more haggis than I thought it would.

One comment that someone made that I think I agree with is that the haggis,
like many haggises was rather dry. They suggested more suet.

In one of the food classes I was in at Pennsic, taught by Honour Horne-Jaruk 
(Alizaunde, Demoiselle de Bregeuf) she said that haggis within out period
was the food of the nobility and was composed of dried fruit in the stomach
rather than the lights. She said that later on it became the food of the 
lower classes and that was when the fruit was replaced by the organ meats
and lungs and such.

While I have several haggis recipes in my haggis-msg file, they can best
be described as traditional and I believe are undated.

Does anyone have evidence to confirm or deny her comments?

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