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Next: 25 Jan 2027

Burns Night

The supper for the poet Robert Burns, with haggis, neeps and tatties and a haggis spiced with black pepper, coriander and nutmeg.

Cutting the haggis at a Burns Supper. Traditional Scots fare is not always appreciated by visitors to Scotland. "The Haggis is a dish not more remarkable or more disgusting to the palate, than in appearance. When I first
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Burns Night

On 25 January Scots and others gather to recite Burns's poem Address to a Haggis and eat the dish of minced offal, oatmeal and suet, seasoned with black pepper, coriander, nutmeg, mace and allspice and cooked in a casing. Neeps (swede) and tatties (potatoes) are served, with whisky. The strong spice is deliberate, given the old tradition of seasoning offal with something that does not fade. Vegetarian haggis uses more pepper, mushroom and lentil.

The spices

Black pepperThe big spice of haggis.NutmegA second warm note.

Also part of it, and being written: Mace (In the traditional seasoning.).

About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Burns supper" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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