What is the best way to eat haggis? what compliments it?!
Answers: Burns night is on Friday and i want to a good meal for the night.
I know it's on Friday night and it commemorates the birth of Robert Burns, born January 25, 1759, it's also my oldest son's 39 birthday.
Before the meal begins Burns' Selkirk Grace is recited:
Some hae meat and canna eat
And some wad eat, that want it,
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
The piper enters, followed by the chef (that would be yourself?) carrying the haggis on a platter. A waiter follows (that would be your partner?) carrying a bottle of whisky. Your waiter would walk around the guests, ending at the top of the table where the 'chairman' takes the whisky and pours out 2 large glasses. The haggis is put on the table and the whiskies are given to the piper and the chef.
Of course, you will first give the "Address to the Haggis".....
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!
Then plunge your dirk into the haggis and cut the St. Andrew's
cross on it.
You will serve the haggis with;
Bashed neeps
and Champit tatties
After the meal is over there are the whisky toasts to "The Immortal Memory" of Burns.
The evening concludes with "Auld Lang Syne"
I was born and raised in Ayrshire until we emmigrated to Canada in 1951. The entire family could recite Burns before attending school.
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Have a wonderful celebration.
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Traditionally, no dessert is served, however, you might like to consider Atholl Brose
Try this one on Spell Check!
Well, are you making your own Haggis?
Dinner should include the following items
1. ****-a-leekie
2. Tattie-an'-Neeps or Clapshot
3. Tipsy Laird
4. Ratafia biscuits
5. Dunlop cheese
Don't forget to "address the Haggis"
Best way to eat it is,
Drunk, blindfolded and with a big bottle of ketchup.