Haggis and Hangovers - Scotland 2024
Piglet
All Saints Host, Circus Host
in All Saints
Hello, and a happy new year to one and all. I hope you all enjoyed your steak pies/black bun/whisky (delete as appropriate) and are feeling not too fragile!
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I thought EWM had gone bust.
I only put steak pie in the OP as it seems to be a traditional New Year food in this part of Scotland.
It wasn't when I was growing up - what I most associate with New Year's Day is a baked ham, glazed with mustard and brown sugar, Dauphinoise potatoes and cabbage with juniper: my mum, who was an excellent cook, was a disciple of the blessèd Delia.
An Expotition to Tess Coe is planned for tomorrow (Storm Henk permitting), and, inspired by this thread, I may well look out for some Haggis. The store has been revamped, with new cabinets, and a greater range of certain items - I'll be looking for Haggis Slices, rather than a whole one.
I noticed there was some in Tessie's between Christmas and New Year, and thought about getting some, but realised I didn't really have the space at the moment.
I will get some at some point though - haggis and clapshot is a dish fit for a king.
I was at the church Burns Supper last Friday (deep fried haggis and chips from the chippy next door, and very nice it was too), but today I betook myself to Tesco's and bought ready-to-heat haggis & clapshot with whisky cream sauce, heated it and ate it, toasting the Bard as I did so.
The only thing that could have improved it would have been rather more of it ...
I bought one, still warm, in the afternoon. We had it with neeps and tatties for dinner.
I also made a chocolate haggis for today's church Drop In, which went down well. It included sultanas which had been soaked in whisky. One lady told me that I'd put in too much whisky for her liking, but the general view seemed to be that there is no such thing as Too Much Whisky.
The NE Man is miffed that he didn't get any, so I might make another.
I seem to recall that using whisky in cooking previously generated a certain amount of discussion in the NE household as to which whisky it was acceptable to use for cooking, and which was to be drunk only....
If you need to make another chocolate haggis for the NE Man, enquiring minds want to know if he wants the posh stuff in his pud!
Love the sound of the chocolate haggis, I might try making that next Burns night.
I did suspect it might!
I'm not sure if I can post it on the Heaven thread? Maybe with attribution?
Since I'm not on Facebook, I did some searching and found her non-Facebook page, it's on there as well. Might have a bash at it over the weekend if I find the time.
We had friends over for Hogmanay when we were in Fredericton and as well as haggis (made by me) and clapshot (made by David) we did a small baked ham - just in case our guests decided they didn't like the haggis. Afterwards I made Leftover SOUP with the clapshot and ham; I think the haggis was all eaten.
https://bakingwithgranny.co.uk/recipe/clootie-dumpling/
But I think cloot/clout (n'er cast a) is the more extant meaning.
*cf the Dutch and Afrikaans 'kloof' meaning a ravine.
Piglet's recipe misses out one ingredient, Sarasa. The silver sixpence! The sixpence is wrapped in greaseproof paper, and it's lucky to be the person who finds it in their slice.
Needless to say, there was no silver sixpence in my scone!
Not the way My Old Mum did it - we sometimes had such a delicious pudding for Sunday lunch, and I can still envisage the kitchen and living-room full of steam from the great boiling...
Sixpence? I was once invited to a Christmas dinner in Aberdeen and was the lucky winner of a silver threepenny bit in the pudding. (I still have it).
The NE Man and I were chorusing over our breakfast If you can't get f****d on a Saturday night, you'll never get f****d at all!
It's not the way we expected our Monday morning to start.
I don't know about the lyrics but I mentioned 'Music to Movement' to my husband and we've been wandering round the kitchen pretending to be trees, and reminiscing about bean bags and those plastic balls with holes in that really hurt if you got hit by one.
That is hilarious.