alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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Anne Welsh Jackson wrote:
Rusty Hinge wrote:
Wot ho, Anne.
Report on progress - the hop had enough cones last year to make about a
bottle of beer.
High hopes for this year innit.
Good news, that she survived the trip south. Let me know when you get a
good brew going, and I'll be down for a sample! ;-)

I might even bring some of "Scotland's Finest" with me...
Haggis?

Got any seeds?

If anyone has any seeds for haggis I would love some!

Try this then:

Get a lamb's pluck. (Sheep's pluck is better, but your butcher may not
be able to get one)

Halve the liver and set one half aside (after safe removal of the gall
bladder!) If you use the whole liver, your haggis will taste of little else.

Chop lights, heart and one half-liver and place in a saucepan with four
or more peeled, quartered onions.

Simmer for a couple of hours.

Remove pluck parts from the broth and mince them. You may mince the
onions too, but some recipes don't mention this.

Mix the minced pluck and onions (if used) in a basin. Add a tablespoon
of black peppercorns, ground, about a quarter to half a nutmeg, scraped,
a tablespoon of thyme and powdered rosemary.

Salt is traditional, but I leave this out.

Stir in a pound of chopped suet (that from round the sheep's kidneys is
best, but beef suet will do. ('Vegetable suet' is hydrogenised - i.e. -
trans-fat, and I eschew it as unhealthy...)

Add a pound of medium oatmeal - the haggs holds together better than
with pinhed. Stir together, moistening with the broth left from cooking
the pluck.

The pudding should be about the consistency of rock cake mix.

Put into greased basins, cover with foil and steam or simmer in shallow
water for about two hours - unless you're using silly little basins,
that is.

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Rusty