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Show Question Scots' Claim to Haggis "Discovery" At liurus' suppers all over the world the tiuggls occupies the place of huuor on the festive bourd. but the "great chieftain o' the puddln'-ruce," as liurus called It, may be nut so purely Scots us most people think. The Krench clului to have Invented It, iioii sa that It was Introduced luto Scotland by .Mary (Jueen of Scots. There Is certainly a French Cookery book that contains a Sixteenth-century recipe very similar to that now used for the making of haggis. Hut If we ure to go to old cookery books fur evidence, the English can put In a claim, too. Haggis Is mentioned men-tioned In three volumes all of which were produced In England In the Fifteenth Fif-teenth century, and one of them, dated dat-ed l-CJU, gives a recipe. Whoever Invented It the demand for haggis shows no sign of falling oT. Even In far o:f Calcutta, Shanghai and Sarawak. Scots Insist on It, and supplies sup-plies are sent out regularly from home. And at one St. Andrew's dinner In London last year 0oo pounds of haggis was eaten. Exchange. |
