[Sca-cooks] looking for maire's haggis recipe

[silverr0se at aol.com]

 I can testify that _this_ haggis is absolutely delicious and still fun for freaking out otherwise stalwart fighter-types.
 
Renata
 
 
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From: selene at earthlink.net
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] looking for maire's haggis recipe


I have a haggis-inspired sweet pudding recipe:  Sweet Haggis

Adapted from the Scottish Womens' Rural Association Cookery Book

A subtletie of sorts, really a steamed oat pudding with no nasty old 
sheep-guts.

1/4 lb. beef suet
1/2 cup raisins
2 cups oatmeal [toast it first]
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
3 tbsp. sugar
1/2 cup cold water
muslin bag to cook it in

Toast oatmeal at 400°F for 10 minutes. Skin and chop or grate suet 
finely. Mix all ingredients together until soft consistancy. Wet muslin 
bag and put mixture into it until more than half full [to allow for 
expansion of oatmeal]. Sew or tie up tightly and put it on an old plate 
inside a large pot of boiling water. Boil for 3 hours; then serve with 
all due ceremony, perhaps accompanied with fake bagpipes and fake poetry.

I use half steel-cut and half rolled oats, the former for chewy 
consistancy and the latter for binding power. The true vegetarian crowd 
can use shortening in a pinch. I also like to add 1 tsp. mixed spice to 
the mix.

Happy Hogmany,
Selene
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