Bashed neeps and haggis

thriftlady_2

Who's having a Burn's Night supper tonight?
Forgot about it this year(I'm not Scottish,so I'm excused),but I usually do a haggis and bashed neeps-it strikes me as quite an old style meal,esp.if you make your own haggis! Anyone done that?Oh,and don't forget the whisky

Trow

We just finished out haggis neeps and tatties - a veggie haggis (not a fan of 'normal' haggis) that was in the supermarket reduced a couple of weeks back that I froze, a locally produced neep that I needed to use up anyway, and local tatties that I bought in a 25kg bag - YUM!

skystar

I too had haggis, neeps and tatties and it was great! I love it and probably have it at least once a month.

Think it tasted even better tonight coz my mummy cooked it for me

Highland_Lass_2

Just had our Burns night tea. Haggis, turnip & carrots mashed togehter - yummy, and tatties. Scottish and proud of it.

SallyinWales

Where do you get a pluck to make your own haggis? I've tried and tried but no butcher will sell me one Have made pretend haggis, but its not the same.
We;re doing Burns night on Sayurday, and Santes Dwynwens day today (welsh valentines day for you elsewhere lot!)

elvis_bloggs

To a Haggis - Read by Peter D Wright

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,Great Chieftan o' the Puddin-race!Aboon them a' ye tak your place,Painch, tripe, or thairm:Weel are ye wordy of a graceAs lang's my arm.

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

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,An' cut you up wi' ready slight,Trenching your gushing entrails brightLike 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 belyveAre bent like drums;Then 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 spewWi' perfect sconner,Looks down wi' sneering, scronful' viewOn 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' bluidy 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 mak it whissle;An' legs, an' arms, an' heads will sned,Like taps o' thrissle.

Ye Pow's wha mak mankind your care,And dish them out their bill o' fare,Auld Scotland wants nae shinking wareThat jaups in luggies;But, if you wish her gratefu' pray'r,Gie her a Haggis!

thriftlady_2

SallyinWales wrote:

Where do you get a pluck to make your own haggis? I've tried and tried but no butcher will sell me one Have made pretend haggis, but its not the same.
We;re doing Burns night on Sayurday, and Santes Dwynwens day today (welsh valentines day for you elsewhere lot!)

I'm surprised a butcher can't get pluck,never tried myself.

Do tell about Santes Dwynwens day?

elvis_bloggs

Pipe in the Haggis.

sammyy

Can I ask,what are neeps?I've never heard of it.

Smiley_Mum

Neeps are bashed turnip/swede. I remember when I was in the States once and went to make haggis, neeps and tatties for my then American boyfriend. Went to the supermarket and couldn't find turnip/swede anywhere. Started to panic but over there they call turnip a rutabaga. Never ever heard of it called that.

Trow

Where I come from, a neep is a swede, although people sometimes think it means turnip - probably because there is more similarity in the name.

In other areas of Scotland it might be slightly different though!!