Was this dish developed on the misunderstanding when a lonely sheep hearder remark "I would love to eat that out...mmmh"?
2006-07-14 11:18:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
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It's actually unknown when/where the first haggis was created/consumed.
The most likely origin of the dish is from the days of the old Scottish cattle drovers. When men left the highlands to drive their cattle to market in Edinburgh, the women would prepare rations for them to eat during the long journey.
They used the ingredients that were most readily available in their homes and conveniently packaged them in a sheep's stomach allowing for easy transportation.
Clarissa Dickson-Wright's theory:
Haggis was invented as a way of cooking quick-spoiling offal near the site of a hunt, without the need to carry along an additional cooking vessel. The liver and kidneys could be grilled directly over a fire, but this treatment was unsuitable for the stomach, intestines, or lungs. Chopping up the lungs and stuffing the stomach with them and whatever fillers might have been on hand, then boiling the assembly — likely in a vessel made from the animal's hide — was one way to make sure these parts did not go to waste.
Other theories:
When a Chieftan or Laird required an animal to be slaughtered for meat (whether sheep or cattle) the workmen were allowed to keep the offal as their share.
2006-07-14 11:26:53 · answer #1 · answered by mroof! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no dont think so
2006-07-14 18:21:47 · answer #2 · answered by 2341 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gross!
2006-07-15 16:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by lou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋