Burns Night Ideas ?

[joggerjayne]

I'm after a few ideas for Burns Night. I'm doing lunch on the Sunday.

Food, games, etc.

DT has mentioned flaming Drambuies. Is that a thing? They sound great.

Scottish charades ... books and films connected with Scotland?

And I'm going to do the "Topless Celebrities" game. You get pictures of loads of famous people, and crop off heir heads and shoulders, and the teams have to identify the bodies and legs from a list of names. I've got lots of famous Scottish men, but can't think of many women. Any ideas?

Oh, and whiskies. I was going to do Haggis as the first course, with maybe four shot glasses of malt whiskies on each place. I have some bottles of scotch whisky, maybe twenty or so, but I don't drink them, so I'm not sure how to pick four that are different from each other. I know there are peaty ones, and not peaty ones.

All ideas that I could pinch from your own Burns things would be welcome.

[maggiebee]

Elaine C Smith

[maggiebee]

There is a statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee as he was created here. His favourite food made by his Auntie Aggie is Cow Pie.

[joggerjayne]

There would have to be triple points for anyone who got that one, Mags.

I've just Googled her, and I still don't recognise her.

[joggerjayne]

According to Wiki (therefore must be true) ...

In the mid West, a "cow pie" is a poo.

[DTCwordfan]

That's a cock-up of a pie, JJ......Aunt Aggie's pies used to have the horns sticking out, the cow's tail and even the Aspidistra from time to time....

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J_o1UO1wBdQ/UXQomj06GrI/AAAAAAAAHWY/DTuIxW36WpE/s1600/watpie.JPG

[joggerjayne]

Clearly the recipe came from this book ...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/79/05/52/7905524d88456e817ab804d26b5169dc.jpg