Haggis Loaf
"A distant cousin of the Great Chieftain o' the Scottish Puddin' Race. The lamb, liver and oats are a 21st century substitute for the now extinct feathered haggis once ferociously hunted by Geronimo MacDonald and his clan in the Adirondack Mountains. Recent research by a team of Poughkeepsie scientists suggests that they may be able, at some future date, be able to clone the feathered haggis from DNA found in fossils of the animal. Until then, you'll have to live with this recipe."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 1 1 lb lamb breast, cut into pieces or 1 lb ground lamb
- 1⁄2 lb lamb liver, cut into pieces
- 4 fluid ounces water
- 1 onion, coarsely chopped
- 1 large egg
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup pinhead oats or 1 cup old fashioned oats, toasted (do NOT use quick-cooking or instant oats, pinhead preferred)
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Grease an 8½ by 4½ inch loaf pan.
- In a food processor fitted with the chopping blade, process together half of the lamb, the liver, water, onion, egg, salt, pepper, sugar, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg until well combined.
- Add the remaining half of the lamb and the oats, and process again until well combined.
- Spoon the lamb mixture into the greased pan and pat the surface to level it.
- Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until center feels firm when gently pressed.
- Cool for 5 minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a hot serving platter; slice and serve with bashed neeps and tatties.
- ***Just like its distant American cousin, the meatloaf, haggis loaf freezes very well after it's cooked- I recommend freezing it in individual serving-size slices.
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Reviews
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I needed to use up the lamb "innards" from last years' freezer order before this years' arrives. Had to use ground beef, though, as the rest of the lamb was gone. Lamb would have been better, I feel sure. I doubled this recipe and to one loaf added the heart and kidney. I also sauted the onion before adding. Flavours were suprisingly mild. I liked the plain liver one better hot, and the one with heart & kidney better cold. Mixture seemed very wet and sloppy, but baked up fine. I will make this again, but up the spices a little next time. -
Very easy to make, and a nice facsimile of the real deal. Lamb liver was not easy to find, used beef liver instead, still turned out very tasty served hot....and made some great cold sandwiches for the ice fishing gang the next morning.
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Chairman Kaga:
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Chef Paula Deen:
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And, boys and girls, you can easily Deenize the sentences that you use in your very own kitchen, such as “All y’all can bawl your corn in olive awl or wrap it in aluminum fawl”.
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Emeril Lagasse:
When he says “confectionery sugar’, he really means “confectioners’ sugar”.
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Iron Chef Morimoto:
When he says “Foo Netwu”, he really means “Food Network”.
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Dessert Dude Jacques Torres:
When he says “I going”, he really means “I am going”. (The verb “to be” has apparently been deleted from the French language.)
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Spit Boy Jamie Oliver:
When he says “whack it in the oven”, he really means “I am into hot, kinky stuff”.
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Giggly-Wiggly Rachael Ray:
When she says “EVOO”, she really means “don’t use BOCO (boring old corn oil)”.
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