2006-06-17 16:30:10 · 9 answers · asked by chuck s 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Sheep organs...yuck.
haggis recipe at the attached link
2006-06-17 16:35:15 · answer #1 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haggis (Haggai in the plural) is a small flightless bird which is native to the cold, wild and windy Scottish highlands. It's the only bird that has four legs; two legs on one side of it's body being shorter than the two legs on the opposite side. The legs being so arranged to enable the bird to move quickly across the very steep terrain in which it lives. There are in fact two varieties of Haggai; left legged and right legged which determines whether they can walk across the mountain from left to right or vice versa. This is tends to cause some confusion during the mating season.
Haggai is hunted by either two methods:
Long "haggis rifles" with curved barrels (Curving to the right for shooting a left legged haggis; and curving to the left when hunting the right legged variety.) is one method. These rifles fire their bullets in a curving trajectory either to the right or left so the bird can be shot when it's not actually in sight. This is necessary because Haggai are extremely timid birds and run away at high speed whenever they encounter humans. The hunter must be careful to duck immediately upon firing the rifle; should the bullet miss the haggis it is likely to travel all the way around the mountain and hit the hunter in the back of his head.
The second method of hunting haggai is for the hunter to hide and wait for a haggis walking toward him. When the haggis gets to within about six feet of the hunter's position, the hunter jumps up scaring the bird. The haggis will then panic, turn around and try to run away; but as it's down-hill legs are now up and it's up-hill legs down, it falls over helplessly and can be easily caught.
I don't know where all these recipes using sheep's stomachs and oatmeal, etc come from, I don't think they are correct.
2006-06-20 18:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by allankw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is called haggis.....
1 cleaned sheep or lamb's stomach bag
2 lb. dry oatmeal
1 lb chopped mutton suet
1 lb lamb's or deer's liver, boiled and minced
1 pint (2 cups) stock
the heart and lights of the sheep, boiled and minced
1 large chopped onion
1/2 tsp.. each: cayenne pepper, Jamaica pepper, s&p
sounds yummy, huh?
2006-06-17 16:36:14 · answer #3 · answered by melissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hagges is sheeps intestines stuffed with meat & spices; considered a delicacy in Great Brittain. No wonder they never smile there.
2006-06-17 16:38:12 · answer #4 · answered by sweetsinglemom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean "haggis"? I believe its some kind of lamb or beef innards.
2006-06-21 18:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by Justjam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heart, lungs and liver......of a sheep, mixed with spices like a sausage and cooked in a tied sheep's stomach
I had it while I was in England......it sounds worse than it is. Not too bad actually.
2006-06-17 16:36:10 · answer #6 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's haggis
and it's the organs stuffed into the stomach and boiled for about an hour
2006-06-17 16:35:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe it is the guts of sheep, stuffed into their stomach and boiled. yum.
2006-06-17 16:34:24 · answer #8 · answered by indygocean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sheep's internal organs stuffed into it...
2006-06-17 23:10:00 · answer #9 · answered by mozzarella_24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋