Game Haggis?

[Spruce Grouse]

I have a question, has anyone ever made haggis with game meat. Obviously it isn't a traditional haggis but has anyone made something that tastes like haggis? I am living in Scotland for a couple years and have come to really like the taste of haggis. I was wondering if anyone has tried to make it using game.
I guess it would be possible to make it without the pluck (sheep stomach), aluminum foil would probably work. The traditional recipe calls for the pluck (stomach), the lights (heart, liver, lungs of a sheep), onions, toasted ground oatmeal, beef suet, pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, beef gravey and juice of a lemon.
What about the lungs? If the lungs of a game animal were not shot to bits, is it usable?
Has anyone done this?

 

[maynard]

Let's face it the Scots are not known for their cuisine.

 

[beretta boy]

... I am living in Scotland for a couple years and have come to really like the taste of haggis...

I hear boiled owl is yummy too !

 

[7.62mm]

let's face it the scots are not known for their cuisine.

lol!

 

[horseman2]

These are the same people who invented golf, think music comes from bagpipes, and consider haggis food . . .

 

[Spruce Grouse]

Have any of you had haggis?
haggis is like sausage, it is a normal food that is eaten often. It isn't something unusual, it isn't served in the stomach. It is very basic, very normal served with mash of turnip and potatoes. I was nervous trying it but after tasting it, I realized that I had been snobby about it because of what it was. When we go out to the pub with co workers in the evening at least one person in the group orders it.

 

[Hi-Standard]

I for one wouldn't mind trying it. After all we eat brawn(pigs brain) although I've only had brawn made with moose brain

 

[arancio]

These are the same people who invented golf, think music comes from bagpipes, and consider haggis food . . .

The first depiction of golf was in Holland well before the game reached Scotland.

 

[arancio]

Haggis made in Canada doesn't taste the same as that made in Scotland. I believe it is because we don't have the right kind of sawdust here.

 

[Spruce Grouse]

Thanks for all the well considered recipes folks.
yum boiled owl!

 

[Musketfire]

Deer haggis....Why not, I sure would try it

Traditionally made haggis is fine fare after a night of quaffing many pints

 

[yellowknifedave]

I've had haggis, and actually enjoyed it. Have never had it with venison, but my recipe book has it; The venison sausage cookbook, by Harold Webster. Have tried over a dozen of these recipes, and they are all pretty good.
Venison Haggis:
3.5 lbs small oatmeal
5 lbs deer hearts
3 lbs deer liver
2 lbs beef suet
3 medium onions, finely chopped
1/3 cup salt
2 1/2 Tbsp. ground white pepper
2 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp. dried chopped rosemary leaves
1 Tbsp ground nutmeg
1/2 cup Scotch whiskey
2 qts cold water
1 cup white vineger
2 tsp salt for soaking casings
46mm beef rounds, or 2 to 3 cleaned deer stomachs

Toast oatmeal for 10 mins @375
Boil hearts and liver till tender (keep the liquid)
Grind hearts and liver with suet.
Bring reserved liquid to a boil, and cook the oatmeal.
drain cooked oatmeal, and add remaining ingredients.
Turn casings inside out and soak in vineger and salt for 1/2 hour
drain well, then stuff with the haggis and tie off the ends.

Enjoy

 

[Spruce Grouse]

Thanks, I will have to try this sometime.

 

[slipp]

Got to hand it to ya I'm sure i could eat it but there better be a few cold beers on the table I'm feeling Peelywally just thinking about it

 

[Silverado]

The best way to serve haggis is how they do it in Calgary on Robbie Burns Day.

They painstakingly prepare and cook a haggis of the finest quality, made with care and steeped in tradition.


Then they launch it across the Bow River from a catapult.

 

[weldboss]

Don't forget the bashed neeps and champit taties.

 

[Pete04]

I've only had haggis a few times, mostly when I lived near Vic., but I loved it.
Far as I could tell, it was just a type of sausage/meatloaf. Very rich and filling.
Yumm!

 

[bck1968]

Got to hand it to ya I'm sure i could eat it but there better be a few cold beers on the table I'm feeling Peelywally just thinking about it

That's what the whiskey's for.

 

[outdoorwoman]

just make sure you clean the stomach really good
salt them sit them in water and let them sit over night and clean them again
made them many time any other question feel free to ask

 

[simulate]

Let's face it the Scots are not known for their cuisine.

No, but they're legendary for their whisky!!!