Traditionally, the haggis is made with a sheep's stomach as a casing. It is filled with oats, onions, spices and the other edible organs that are cooked first and then chopped up. These are called "pluck," -- things plucked from the sheep carcass -- and include the "lights," or lungs.
It fell out of favor during the mad cow days because you couldn't export beef from Britain.
My boyfriend is Scottish. Maybe on Thanksgiving or Christmas when we visit his mother she'll make me some. I'd try it.
I've tried stuff I would of never thought would even be tasty. I ate ferns a few months ago. Yes, ferns! They were very delicious. I tried guinea pig before when I was an exchange student in Peru. I wouldn't say I'd ever want to eat it again but it wasn't bad. Tasted like chicken.
That would be pretty disgusting even for me. Banana bread and blood sausages do not mix together.
Besides I cooked this after my banana breads were done baking. They are in the freezer now along with cherry coconut bread, cherry coconut carrot pecan bread, carrot banana breads, carrot pineapple breads, banana pineapple breads, and lemon poopy seed bread. I still have to bake two more breads before Monday. I've been baking since Thursday.
This is how you make it, tradionally. At least this is how we do it in Puerto Rico.
Sometimes people in today's world make them with a casing instead of the actual instentines.
You kill the pig you've fattened up in your back yard. Drain and the blood and collect it. Gut the pig. Ram the pig on a long metal pole entering it's mouth and exiting it's rear end. You roast it over an open fire. On one end of the pole you attach a steering wheel and kids take turns rotating the pig until it's cooked. Takes several hours. Cook some white rice with onions and garlic. Set it aside to cool. Mix the cooled rice with blood. You don't want to pour all the blood in. You want the two to combine and not be runny. You take the intestines, clean them out, and fill them with the rice/blood mixture, sometimes pork meat as well. Then you tie the ends of the instestines with butcher's rope. You then get a frying pan and fill it with enough water so that the sausages will be halfway in the way water and halfway out. You let them boil until the water evaporates then you fry them to make the outer casing or the instestine crispy. Enjoy!