Haggis
- 1 each sheep stomach thoroughly cleaned
- 1 each sheep liver heart, and lungs
- 1 pound beef suet
- 2 large onions
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 2 pounds oatmeal dry, old-fashioned
- 2-3 cups stock (in which the liver, heart and lights were cooked)
- If the butcher has not already cut apart and trimmed the heart, liver and lungs, do that first.
- It involves cutting the lungs off the windpipe, cutting the heart off the large bloodvessels and cutting it open to rinse it, so that it can cook more quickly.
- The liver, too, has to be freed from the rest.
- Put them in a 4-quart pot with 2 to 3 cups water, bring to a boil, and simmer for about an hour and a half.
- Let it all cool, and keep the broth.
- Run the liver and heart through the meat grinder.
- Take the lungs and cut out as much of the gristly part as you easily can, then run them through the grinder, too.
- Next, put the raw beef suet through the grinder.
- As you finish grinding each thing, put it in the big kettle.
- Peel, slice and chop the onions, then add them to the meat in the kettle.
- Add the salt and spices and mix.
- The oatmeal comes next, and while it is customary to toast it or brown it very lightly in the oven or in a heavy bottomed pan on top of the stove, this is not absolutely necessary.
- When the oatmeal has been thoroughly mixed with the rest of it, add the 2 cups of the broth left from boiling the meat.
- See if when you take a handful, it sticks together.
- If it does, do not add the third cup of broth.
- If it is still crumbly and will not hold together very well, add the rest of the broth and mix thoroughly.
- Have the stomach smooth side out and stuff it with the mixture, about three-quarters full.
- Sew up the openings.
- Wrap it in cheesecloth, so that when it is cooked you can handle it.
- Now, wash out the kettle and bring about 2 gallons of water to a boil in it.
- Put in the haggis and prick it all over with a skewer so that it does not burst.
- You will want to do this a couple of times early in the cooking span.
- Boil the haggis gently for about 4 or 5 hours.
- If you did not have any cheesecloth for wrapping the haggis, you can use a large clean dishtowel.
- Work it under with kitchen spoons to make a sling with which you can lift out the haggis in one piece.
- You will probably want to wear lined rubber gloves to protect your hands from the hot water while you lift it out with the wet cloth.
- (You put the dish cloth in the pot only after the haggis is done; you do not cook the towel with the haggis as you would the cheesecloth.)
thoroughly, heart, suet, onions, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, allspice, oatmeal dry, stock
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/haggis-47839 (may not work)