• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

Haggis

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

cowgo

Well-Known Member
Joined
Nov 3, 2007
Messages
578
Reaction score
12
Location
Kansas
I love the stuff. Had it a couple times a week while I was going to school in Scotland and it's the first thing I search out on return trips.

Since the FDA has determined that sheep lungs are not fit for human consumption, you can't import the real stuff to the States so I make my own. Goes great with a pint of heavy.

1 lb beef heart, cut into 2-inch strips
1 lb beef liver
1/2 lb lamb stew meat, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 pound of beef or lamb suet
1 1/2 cups peeled and finely chopped yellow onions
4 tablespoons Scotch whiskey
2 cups toasted pinhead oatmeal ( toasted on a cookie sheet at 375F for 10 minutes)

SEASONINGS
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

---------
Place the beef heart in a 4-quart covered pot and just cover with cold water.

Simmer, covered, for 70 minutes.

Add the beef liver and lamb stew meat and cover; simmer for 20 minutes.

Remove the contents of the pot and cool.

Reserve 1 cup of the liquid.

Grind everything coarsely.

In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients and place into boiling bag.

Steam or boil for 90 minutes.

Drink three pints of heavy and try not to crush the doublings playing a melancholy Flower of Scotland on the pipes.

---------------------------

Theres a place down in Texas that makes some good haggis for sale you can buy over the net. Caledonia Kitchen.
 
Sounds like unprocessed hot dogs.

I've never been brave enough to try the stuff myself, but if given the opportunity I probably would.
 
Never tried it. My parents brought me back a can when they went to Scotland earlier this year, havn't worked up the courage to try it yet though.

Maybe I'll have my next brew be a Scottish Heavy, I'll get trashed off it and cook up some haggis!
 
My one son and I were watching Bizzare Foods and the guy was in Scotland. They were making Haggis, so my son (who is about 5) turns to me and says "Daddy, I want you make Haggis". So I did the best I could given what was available. I had to substitute Pork for everything. It turned out swell. Had it with Tatties and Neeps, and I even recited a Burns poem. :D

Yeah about the FDA...they don't know jack. People have been eating the pluck for centuries, along with raw milk cheese, etc. Quite often the rulings are based around the current state of our Agriculture...rather Mega-Agriculture...but don't get me started :)
 
zoebisch01 said:
My one son and I were watching Bizzare Foods and the guy was in Scotland. They were making Haggis, so my son (who is about 5) turns to me and says "Daddy, I want you make Haggis". So I did the best I could given what was available. I had to substitute Pork for everything. It turned out swell. Had it with Tatties and Neeps, and I even recited a Burns poem. :D

Yeah about the FDA...they don't know jack. People have been eating the pluck for centuries, along with raw milk cheese, etc. Quite often the rulings are based around the current state of our Agriculture...rather Mega-Agriculture...but don't get me started :)

Got that right. I read a great piece in the a Gourmet mag sub-issue about black-market cheese rings. Makes me want some so much worse.
 
My wife and I just got back after a year in Edinburgh and we are already missing the Haggis, Neeps, & Tatties. We will have to try your recipe, but it won’t be the same without the pint of Deuchars (anyone have a clone recipe?).
 
rdwj said:
I wish I got the chance to try it before finding out what's in it.

I find quite often that many apprehensions about food are not really related to taste at all :D. Haggis fits quite well into this category. The hot steaming, light fluffy texture is wonderful and the flavor is not nearly as strong as eating say a slice of liver because of the Oats. It's wonderful fare for a cold night, imo.
 
If you can find a local sheep farmer, you should be able to score some lungs off them. I scored some lamb testicles this way. The farmer was so amused that I wanted them that he promised me anytime I wanted balls I could take as much as I wanted.
 
Do you guys like black pudding?

kitchen_black_pudding.jpg
 
Bah Humbug said:
Do you guys like black pudding?

Now I am really hungry. Nothing quite like the traditional English/Scottish breakfast. Never thought I would like a breakfast with beans, tomato, mushrooms, egg, scone, bacon, & black pudding but damn it is awesome.
 
Back
Top