Haggis, English

[NewGuise]

Apparently the earliest recipe for haggis comes from The English Hus-Wife, published in 1615, which predates any known record of haggis in Scotland by well over a century. See http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/...174/story.html

[Redshank]

There are those that beg to differ

http://www.haggis.co.nz/recipies/

[sydnie7]

Topic's been hashed, err, haggised? here before:
in this thread, if not others

[highlander_Daz]

as its the dregs of the beast and mixed with oatmeal , id suggest it was developed independantly all over the world by many different cultures, the one true haggis has two short legs and two long legs so it can traverse the high ground, thats a proper Scottish haggis

[Tobus]

The actual quote from the cookbook says: "The use and vertues of these two severall kinds of Oate-meales in maintaining the Family, they are so many (according to the many customes of many Nations) that it is almost impossible to recken all;” and then proceeds to give a description of “oat-meale mixed with blood, and the Liver of either Sheepe, Calfe or Swine, maketh that pudding which is called the Haggas or Haggus, of whose goodnesse it is in vaine to boast, because there is hardly to be found a man that doth not affect them".

He specifically mentions multi-national origins for recipes, and never claims this one to be of English origin. How does one deduce that just because the recipe appears in an English cookbook that it must be of English origin? I would think that real historians would be all over that.

[NewGuise]

Topic's been hashed, err, haggised? here before:
in this thread, if not others

Missed that, being prior to my joining this illustious rabble. But interesting that the Edmonton Journal would publish this same article, verbatim, all these months later. So much for "news" ... but I guess it takes a while for such things to reach the frozen colonies...

[beloitpiper]

This was in the New York Times awhile ago, and I argued against it then, too!

Next they'll be telling me that an English factory owner invented the philabeg--as if!