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Grow your own Haggis

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LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 26 Jan 2016 23:55

That's a different species. :-D

Another species is the Highland Haggis......... they have four legs, on one side the legs are longer........ it makes it easier for them to run around hills.


:-D

Harswell

Harswell Report 26 Jan 2016 21:56

It just goes to show that some people will believe anything.
Haggis are flightless birds that live in the Highland heather,and run through it at great speed.Now and again they will stop and jump up out of the heather to see where they are.That is the right time to shoot them.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 26 Jan 2016 10:44

Back in the 1980's I was working away in Glasgow for 6 months and used to stay at the Copthorne Hotel during the week.

They used to serve home produced Haggis as a speciality every now and again. We were reliably told at the time they were caught during the dead of night in Queens Square....!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Jan 2016 23:54

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 25 Jan 2016 23:46

How to................

Haggis is best grown from cuttings from the parent tuber than from seeds. Make sure that you buy your haggis tuber from Scotland. Beware French, or Romanian imitations.

Take a sharp knife - my aunt used her tongue, but I wouldn't recommend that on hygiene grounds - and cut cubes of the haggis tuber 5cm square.

Take an old cup and fill it with sheep dung. Water liberally. After a week dust the bottom (the cutting's, not yours) with a rooting hormone powder. Buy the best 'Robbie Burns' compost and plant the cuttings in the compost. Place them on a radiator so that they get bottom heat.

After ten days, your haggis cuttings should sprout little white fingers. Transfer them to your conservatory, if you haven't got a conservatory, a garage works fine. At the end of the December harvest them, and put them in a dark cupboard for about 3 weeks. On Burns day cut open your Haggis and fill with a lambs stomach, oats, deer liver and a chopped onion.

The final secret ingredient is a leg - it's your leg which was just pulled!

:-D