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Celebrate Scotland with a Burns Night dinner

by Jeanne Horak on January 25, 2009 25 Comments in Canapés, Dessert, Foodbuzz 24-24-24, Main course - meat, Recipes, Vegetable side dishes

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In the flickering candlelight, there is a man in a skirt approaching me, carrying both a knife and a stuffed sheep’s stomach, and somewhere in the background I can hear a sound like a cat strapped to some Mediaeval instrument of torture.

Oh no… hang on… it’s actually bagpipe music.

And no, I’m, not being inducted into some arcane pagan society.  I’m celebrating Soctland’s favourite son, Robert Burns, with a traditional Burns Night dinner!

Poet and lyricist Robert Burns is probably best known as the author of Auld Lang Syne, and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.  He is the best-known poet who wrote in the Scots language but he also wrote in a light dialect and in standard English, which made his work accessible to a far wider audience.  In 1801, five years after his death, some of Burns’ friends and admirers decided honour the departed poet with a dinner. They did it again the next year, and the next; by the early 19th century, Burns Clubs all over the country were hosing annual Burns Suppers on 25 January. The celebrations were original only for men, the procedure was highly structured, and the menu has remained largely the same to this day (haggis consisting of sheep’s stomach lining stuffed with sheep offal, oatmeal and spices, is de rigeur).  However, ladies are now admitted 🙂

So what happens at a Burns Night Dinner?  Why don’t you join me at our very own Burns celebration hosted by our Scots friend Rory.

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Rory welcomed us with Culloden cocktails (champagne and Drambuie) and peat-smoked sea scallop and trout pate on oatcake canapes from Maclean’s Hebridean Bakery.  The smoked fish came from the wonderful Hebridean Smokehouse, a small family run business located on the island of North Uist.  (Uist is part of the Outer Hebrides, off the coast of the Scottish mainland).  The flavour that the peat imparts to the fish is quite extrraordinary and I was thrilled to see that the smokehouse also ships to the UK, Ireland, the USA and Canada!  From there, we took our places at the table where the traditional Selkirk grace (also attributed to Burns) was said.

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Traditionally, the meal would be all about the haggis, but we opted to precede our haggis with cullen skink, a thick Scottish soup made with smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. This was followed by what most people would regard as The Main Event.  Rory (as host and chairman) asked us to stand as he brought the haggis in on a platter. Usually the haggis-bearer would be followed into the room by a lone piper, but seeing as neither Nick nor Pete looked capable of mastering the bagpipes in 30 seconds, we went for some recorded bagpipe music!  As is traditional, Rory then recited one of Burns’ poems, Address to a Haggis and as he reached the line “An’ cut you up wi’ ready slicht”, he dramatically stabbed the haggis – if you think I am making this up, please watch the video of Rory addressing the haggis!

Once the haggis was well and properly addressed and stabbed, we all toasted it before it was served on a bed of clapshot (a traditional mash of boiled potatoes and yellow turnips or “neeps”).  An interesting question is what to serve to drink with haggis.  We kept it traditional and served Talisker whisky, but this combination may be the result of force of habit rather than good culinary sense: the high alcohol content of the whisky can exaggerate the peppery spices of the haggis.  Other suggestions include semi-sparkling wines, light-bodied reds or full-flavoured Belgian beers.

After the haggis stabbing, there was some light relief with traditional toasts – the menfolk (as represented by Nick) propose a sarcastic, sexist toast “to the lassies” (that would be, erm… me) and I replied with a sarcastic toast about how much women hate men.  Strange Mating Rituals of Scotland, Part XVI.

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Rory had outdone himself with the meat course – a roast rack of mutton marinated in Drambuie and home-made marmalade.  Drambuie is a honey- and herb-flavoured whisky liqueur made from aged malt whisky, heather honey and a secret blend of herbs and spices – the name means “the drink that satisfies” in Scottish Gaelic.  And how, you may well ask, is marmalade Scottish?  Apparently, since the 1700s Dundee has had a tradition of marmalade-making and was for many years the centre of the marmalade universe.  Fact! The lamb was served with the charmingly-named rumbledthumps, a combination of potato, cabbage and onion (similar to Irish colcannon).

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I had been put in charge of dessert, and since I had prior warning of the culinary delights that Rory was planning, I knew that dessert should be light and fruity rather than heavy and cloying.  Caledonian cream proved to be the perfect answer – booze-soaked orange segments with a zesty, creamy topping.  Highly recommended and supremely simple to make.

And last but not least came the cheese course – more oatcakes accompanied by Kilbride medium mature cheddar from the Isle of Arran Cheese Shop; organic cromal (a caerphilly-style cheese with a strong creamy flavour from the Connage Dairy near Inverness); and clava (an organic Brie-style cheese also from the Connage Dairy).

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As liquid refreshment, we had some wonderful Talisker 10 year old malt whisky, as well as Drambuie whisky liqueur liberally splashed on everything from the welcome cocktail, to the mutton, to the dessert.  With the mutton we had a rather fabulous bottle of 2001 Brokenwood Cricket Pitch Red, bought at the Henley Wine Fair in 2004 and now drinking just beautifully with full-bodied jammy fruit flavours and hints of liquorice.  And just because we were feeling adventurous, we rounded off the meal with some Vietnamese weasel coffee – and it was delicious.  Fact!

All in all, we ate and drank and made speeches for close on seven hours – I’m sure Mr Burns would have approved!  And the reason why you are getting to hear about our wonderful meal in such detail is because my lovely sponsors Foodbuzz selected me as one of the participants in this month’s 24,24,24 event.  Please do go and check out the other 23 posts as they appear during the course of the day tomorrow.

Slàinte mhath!

RECIPES

SMOKED SCALLOP AND TROUT PATE (adapted from Rampant Scotland) – serves 4-6

Ingredients:

110g unsalted butter
100g smoked sea trout
100g smoked sea scallops
120ml double cream, lightly whipped
1 Tbsp lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Heat the butter gently in a pan until melted and allow to cool for 5 minutes.

Depending on the texture you prefer, you can either use a food processor or a fork to mash up the scallops and fish while gradually adding the melted butter.  Mix until until the texture is as smooth or chunky as you like.

By hand, stir in the lemon juice and the lightly whipped cream and mix well. Place in a pretty serving dish and chill for 30 minutes before serving.  Serve with Scottish oatcakes (we used Nairn’s).

CULLEN SKINK (from Rampant Scotland) – serves 4-6

Ingredients:

1 large smoked haddock (weighing around 900g)
1 medium onion, finely chopped.
900ml milk
2 Tbsp butter
220g mashed potato
water
salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
chopped parsley to garnish
toast triangles to serve

Method:

Cover the smoked haddock with water in a shallow pan, skin side down. Bring to the boil and simmer for 4/5 minutes, turning once.

Take the haddock from the pan and remove the skin and bones. Break up the fish into flakes, return it to the cooking liquid and add the chopped onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Go easy on the salt as the smoked fish will already be salty.

Simmer for another 15 minutes. Strain and remove the bay leaf, but reserve the stock and fish. Add the milk to the fish stock and bring back to the boil.

Add enough mashed potato to create the consistency you prefer – you are aiming for rich and thick. Add the fish and reheat, and check for seasoning.

Just before serving, add the butter in small pieces so that it runs through the soup. Serve garnished with chopped parsley, accompanied by toast triangles.

HAGGIS – I wouldn’t suggest you make your own haggis unless you are a fairly ambitious cook – ours was made by Scottish butcher Simon Howie and you will probably notice that it was in an inedible synthetic casing rather that a sheep’s stomach – quite good if you are squeamish abotu these things!  If, however, you are determined tp make your own, here is a recipe.

CLAPSHOT (from Rampant Scotland) – serves 4-6

Ingredients:

450g peeled and boiled potatoes
450g peeled and boiled yellow turnip/rutabaga/swede)
1 or 2 Tbsp chopped chives
salt and pepper
55g butter

Method:

Mash the potatoes and turnips together while still hot and mix in the butter, chives and seasoning.  Serve piping hot.

DRAMBUIE & MARMALADE GLAZED RACK OF MUTTON

Ingredients:

1 rack of lamb or mutton
40ml Drambuie
2-3 Tbsp bitter marmalade

Method:

Mix the Drambuie and marmalade.  Lightly score the meat and coat with the marinade.  Cover with foil and leave to marinade overnight.

Preheat the oven to 220-230C.

Remove the racks of mutton from the marinade and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat a heavy ovenproof frying pan until hot, add a splash of oil and cook the racks until evenly browned all over.

Transfer to the oven and cook for 8-10 minutes, or until cooked to your liking. Remove the racks from the oven, cover them loosely with foil and leave to rest in a warm place for 10-15 minutes to become evenly pink.

RUMBLEDTHUMPS (from Rampant Scotland) – serves 4-6

Ingredients:

450g boiled and mashed potatoes
450g boiled cabbage, drained
about 30g butter
salt and black pepper

Method:

Mash the potatoes and finely chop the cabbage and mix in a large saucepan in which the butter has been melted. Keep the saucepan over a low heat to keep it hot. Season to taste and serve piping hot.

The mixture can also be put into a greased oven-proof dish and cooked at 200C until the top is browned.

CALEDONIAN CREAM (from Rampant Scotland) – serves 4-6

Ingredients:

FOR THE CREAM:
300g smooth cream cheese
300ml double cream
2 Tbsp marmalade (thick, bitter marmalade is suggested but use what you have)
2 Tbsp Drambuie or whisky (plus more to soak)
2 tsp lemon juice
zest of 3 oranges
caster sugar to taste

FOR THE BASE:
4-6 oranges, segmented and the pith and membranes removed

Method:

Soak the prepared orange segments overnight in whisky or Drambuie. Place in the base of stemmed glasses and add a splash of Drambuie or whisky to each..

Blend all the ingredients for the cream in a liquidiser or by hand until smooth. Spoon the cream on top of the oranges. Garnish with some orange zest and serve chilled.

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  1. Peter says

    January 26, 2009 at 3:07 am

    WHOA Jeanne…this dinner is awesome, a fine dinner for Robbie Burns.
    Every now & then I see Scottish dinners like these and they certainly have their WOW factor!.

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  2. Wendy T says

    January 26, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Gosh, that all looks divine! Skip the haggis though! Reminds me of when we lived in Zambia and attended the Burns night at the Intercontinental, the look on some of the waiters faces at the sight of all these “mzungus” in their “skirts”, playing bag pipes and stabbing the haggis, was priceless! Have a great week:)

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  3. Natasha - 5 Star Foodie says

    January 27, 2009 at 1:51 am

    What a great celebration of Scottland! Wonderful dishes! Thanks for sharing this experience.

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  4. courtney says

    January 27, 2009 at 2:43 am

    Great post Jeanne. You actually want to make try some Haggis/ The cocktails sounde wonderful with Drambui and Champagne. Thanks for showing what this hoilday/event is all about.

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  5. Johanna says

    January 27, 2009 at 2:48 am

    Happy burns night Jeanne – great descriptions of a Scottish meal! The drama of the haggis is indeed a lot of fun (I was lucky enough to go to a wedding where they did the whole shebang) and your photo of the haggis makes it look tempting – which is no mean feat with mince and mash! Talisker is our whiskey of choice in our house at the moment but has been found to be rather strong! I still hope one day to recreate the atholl brose we had at the wedding as part of the haggis ceremony.

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  6. Dragon says

    January 27, 2009 at 2:57 am

    I’m not sure I could brave the haggis but the rest of the meal looks divine. The video made me laugh. Well done!

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  7. nina says

    January 27, 2009 at 6:10 am

    I have been avoiding doing a Foodbuzz 24,24,24 for too long now. You have done a spectacular job and I am inspired!!!

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  8. Jan says

    January 27, 2009 at 7:11 am

    Wow – What a fantastic post! You did an excellent 24-24-24!!

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  9. Rosemary says

    January 27, 2009 at 9:10 am

    The CULLEN SKINK really looks lovely. I am most impressed by your 24-24-24, I am truly inspired to try it too now

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  10. Pille says

    January 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Oh, Jeanne, I’m sooooo jealous now. I didn’t celebrate Burns Supper at all this year, and now I wholeheartedly regret it…

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  11. Bellini Valli says

    January 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Oh what a night Jeanne!!!Did you get to wear a kilt? When I was a mear highschool student I worked for a catering company as a server and walked down the aisle, piped in by bagpipes, carrying the haggis on a silver tray. This was an excellent idea for a 24, 24, 24.

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  12. elra says

    January 27, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    I was so curious about haggis and open the link. Uhhhh, I change my mind. Still Jeanne, I just can’t eat all of those organ from the animal, though it was also common in Indonesia when I was growing up, I never eaten this part (maybe because my parent never eaten them, and my mom wouldn’t event touch animal)
    I like the scallop and trout pate, and the RUMBLEDTHUMPS, I think I twisted my tongue when try to say this word 100 times, ha…ha..ha.. sounds good.
    Cheers,
    Elra

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  13. lisaiscooking says

    January 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Cullen Skink sounds fantastic as does the caledonian cream. What a great meal!

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  14. Michelle says

    January 28, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Wow, that’s quite a feast you hade there. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able stomach haggis or black pudding for that matter, however, the rest of the courses looked divine!

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  15. Elizabeth says

    January 28, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    This sounds like a lot of fun, Jeanne! I’ve always wanted to try haggis but never gone so far as to seek it out. Too bad you didn’t have actual pipes playing… (then you could have thought you were listening to tortured pumas rather than a little scrawny cat).
    Even though Talisker is considered de rigeur with it, it does seem like a bit of a waste of the whisky. Not that I’d turn it down…. But with the cheese course, there’s where I bet the whisky was really the star!
    (It’s driving me crazy that Firefox keeps telling me that I’ve misspelled “whisky” and keeps trying to suggest that I spell it as the Irish do. That wouldn’t do at all!! I wonder what Mr. Burns would have had to say on that matter! “Freedom an’ whisky gang thegither” but does whiskey intermarry just as well?? (Strike me down, I’m not sure that I would know the difference between a single malt whisky and a single malt whiskey.)

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  16. Nate says

    January 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    congratulations on being selected for 24, 24, 24! What an amazing meal. I’ve never had haggis before and am dying to try it.
    We also did a 24, 24, 24 dinner, but celebrating Chinese New Year instead of Burns Night. We had a blast. Come check out our post!

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  17. Ivy says

    January 28, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Congratulations for being featured in 24, 24, 24. You did a great job and thanks for introducing us to all these Scottish food, they sound delicious.

    Reply
  18. abby says

    January 28, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    looks and sounds wonderful jeanne. and you’ve reminded me i have some decent whisky which i should be drinking more of!

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  19. The Duo Dishes says

    January 29, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Now that is a feast. Congrats on the 24 post!

    Reply
  20. _ts of [eatingclub] vancouver says

    January 30, 2009 at 12:13 am

    Don’t know much about Scottish food (except haggis, of course). Great 24, 24, 24 post!

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  21. Kevin says

    January 30, 2009 at 3:15 am

    Sounds like fun and the food looks great!

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  22. Joanne says

    January 30, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Hi -Great Burns post! We celebrated Robby Burns Night at the Brae Loch Inn in Cazenovia, NY – a Scottish style B & B. The dinner was quite different so it’s interesting to see your take on the celebration. Great post. If interested, I posted our Burns nights festivities on Jan. 24th – the celebration was the 23rd. Too bad they didn’t have it on his actual birthday – but hey… it was a great Friday night!
    blog site http://applecrumbles.wordpress.com

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  23. Chefectomy says

    February 7, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    What a phenomenal post. I really enjoyed this. Your menu is literally tops. I’ll be over in Scotland next week and look forward to enjoying the wonderful cuisine and traditions of this great country. You have definitely put me in the mood with a great send off from such a well done event. If you have a moment, have a look at posting I did regarding Scotland a few months back.
    http://chefectomy.blogspot.com/2008/11/meeting-thy-moneys-maker-shepherds-pie.html

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  24. kelvincostner says

    January 22, 2015 at 7:09 am

    Very Nice Dish.. can we know more what happens at a Burns Night Dinner?

    Thanks for Sharing!!

    Reply
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