Make haggis

My self made deadline for my Icelandic haggis website. I want the first version to be up on January 25th. Why?

In Scotland, every January 25, they celebrate the birthday of their national poet, Robbie Burns Day! A special pudding is served called Haggis which has been cooked inside a sheep’s stomach.

I like this. The Scottish have made eating the inside of sheeps a event in literature.

I got permission to use the pictures and I am gathering stuff, poems etc. for my site.

I have postponed my goal to make an Icelandic haggis making website until January 2006. I hope it will be ready on Burns day. I found this beautiful pictures of Icelandic haggis making
http://js.smugmug.com/gallery/909895

I plan to contact the photographer and ask for permission to use some of his pictures on my haggis websites.

I want to make website about haggis making the Icelandic way.
I want the website first version to be ready on the Burns day in January 2005.
In Iceland it is traditional to make haggis every year in September or October. The sheeps are in the highlands in the summer until at that time.

In the families I know haggis used to be made in two steps. On the first day you sew the bags out of sheep stomachs, it takes lot of time, you get five bags out of one sheep stomach.

Then on the day of the haggis making you fill the bags with mixture of liver, fat and oatmeal and also another form of haggis made of blood, liver and oatmeal.

we have no haggis culture like the Burns dinner in Scotland, haggis used to be and still is the poor people stable food but haggis is one of the food served at traditionals þorrablót or winter festivals in Iceland.

I attach a picture of my fourteen year old daughter sewing the sheep stomach.