Ceilidh & Clan Dinner

Dinner Buffet Menu

• Roast Beef Carved to order
• Sliced Roast Turkey
• Rolled Boiled Ham
• Baked Vegetable Lasagna

• Kielbasa
• Potato & Cheese Peirogie
• Italian Meat Balls inn Tomato Sauce
• Fried Chicken Drummers

• Tossed Green Salad
• Fruit Salad
• Baked Potato
• Homemade Baked Beans
• Assorted Relishes
• Sliced American Cheese
• Rolls, Garlic Bread, Assorted Breads & Butter

• Dessert Table with Assorted Pies & Pastries

  There will be a piping of the haggis with the reading of Robert Burns' "Address to a Haggis" prior to the dinner.
   

  How to Make Haggis

  Haggis is served on the 25th of January which the Anniversary of Robert Burns and on St. Andrew's Day, the 30th of November. It is traditionally served with Neeps and Tatties (Turnips and Potatoes). It is carried aloft on a silver tray by a Highlander in full Highland dress, preceded by a piper playing a national air.

  Recipe:

  • 1 stomach bag
  • liver, lights, and heart of a sheep
  • 1 breakfast cup oatmeal
  • 2 onions
  • 8oz shredded mutton suet
  • salt
  • black pepper

  Clean stomach bag thoroughly and leave overnight in cold water to which salt has been added. Turn rough side out. Put heart, lights and liver in a pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for 1 and a half hours. Toast the oatmeal in a tray in the oven or under the grill. Chop the heart, lights and liver. Mix all the ingredients together with the suet, adding salt and pepper. Keep the mixture sappy, using the liquid in which the liver was boiled. Fill the bag a little over a handful, as a mixture needs room to swell. Sew securely and put in a large pot of hot water. As soon as mixture begins to swell, prick with a needle to prevent bag from bursting. Boil for 3 hours. Serve with mashed potatoes and mashed turnip.
  Serves 6-8.

  Here is a poem by Robert Burns to go along with the recipe:

  To a Haggis
   

  Fair fa' your honest sonsy face, Great Chieftan o' the puddin' race! Aboon them a' ye tak yer place, Painch, tripe or thairn; Weel are ye worthy of a grace A lang's my arm.