Haggis - with today being Burns (night)?

Question

can someone tell me the tradition of it and what the hunt is all about and what is shot?

Sorry, I know what Haggis is made from just wanted to know the origion of Burns and is the hunt like Easter Egg hunt?!

Answer 1

t's unknown who discovered and prepared this for the first time. The most likely origin of the dish is from the days of the old Scottish cattle drovers. When the 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 down through the glens. 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 during the journey.

Another theory, put forward by food historian Clarissa Dickson-Wright, is that 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. (Dickson-Wright 12).

Other theories are based on Scottish slaughtering practices. 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.

Answer 2

The haggis is man made from offal and a sheep's stomach lining. A sort of sausage in effect.

Piped in on Burn's Night and the poem "To a Haggis" recited.

Answer 3

The haggis is a small animal native to Scotland. The poor creature has 2 left legs shorter than his 2 right legs, this means that he runs in circles. To catch them, you have to run in the opposite direction.When caught the haggis is handled with extreme care and reverence. On Burns Night the fans gather all of them dressed in their finest tartan. To signal the entrance of the haggis a piper plays and everyone welcomes the sight. A toast is drunk to the sovereign of the pudding race and everyone tucks in to the haggis, tatties (potatoes) and neeps (turnips). All in all a great feast for everyone but the haggis.

Answer 4

Haggis is nasty stuff. I've had it for breakfast in Scotland (I thought it was blood sausage). Read the links below about Haggis and Burns night.

Answer 5

haggis is a boiled meat pudding. It is made from chopped lights suet pin-head oatmeal oniob spices. It is like a white or black pudding in many ways. It is stuufud traditionally into a lamb or sheep stomach.

The tradtion of having a hagis at as burns supper originated froma club Called the Batchelors cluv in Tarbolton. It was begun by Robert Burns and some of his erudite batchelor friends to discuss politics arts and as a drinking venue. haggis was a cheap meal. see address to haggis.Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An cut you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit' hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit:
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

Answer 6

I thought we decided Haggis was a racist statement.

Answer 7

Take a look at this: