Tasting The Burns Night Dinner | Food History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- In this week's food history video, I'm cooking and tasting the untold story from the first Burns Night dinner from 1801, which featured: haggis, neeps, tatties, and a whole sheep's head...
Every 25 January, the world celebrates the life and work of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. But the first ever dinner held to honour him featured a whole sheep's head, which has faded in popularity ever since. So, I'm on a mission to find out if we've missed out!
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00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Haggis
01:52 - Sheep's Head
02:39 - Neeps & Tatties
04:47 - Tasting
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I'll pretty much eat anything that hasn't eaten me first, so I'd be perfectly willing to try haggis and sheep's head - as long as they aren't served with stewed tomatoes....
I love that that’s your limit! We all have them. Mine is anything with tentacles. For some reason it does weird things to my thalassophobia.
I didn't know that a sheep's head could be roasted - I thought it had to be stewed, so this was an interesting surprise! (The tongue probably does still need to be stewed, though, and the brains might not be very palatable after being cooked without having been peeled and soaked.)
Didn't know much about Robert Burns either, so thank you very much for this informative video! (Hope your finger is healing up well.)
In all fairness, I think it’s highly likely that it would have been stewed. I suppose I opted for roasting because of how some relatives described the smell of stewing one, and some ill-conceived idea that it may make for a slightly less off putting thumbnail!
And it is, thank you for saying! I’m bandage free now, and looking forward to people asking why I made so much fuss now it’s healed.
I'm gonna try that sheep's head on the good old Kamado grill. I'll just have to find a day my GF is very far away, I guess...
Maybe try deconstructing it and sheep’s cheek may be more appealing without it staring back at her?
@@unicornstew well, but where's the fun in having sheep's head if you don't have a head? Besides, meatwise I can't even get her to eat liver, heart or anything else that is not pure "steak", so...
Anyhow, keep making these videos, I'm loving them!
It’s a fair point. There’s a good reason why no one opted to sit in on that filming session this time!
Thank you very much - do let me know if you ever have any requests or recommendations!
@@unicornstew pity we've all become so distanced from the whole animal... I mean, to each their own filet mignon, but unfortunately it really isn't sustainable.
Cheers from Switzerland!
On the other hand, plenty of people are willing to eat the less visually appealing bits if they're minced up in sausages etc...