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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: </span></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span></span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Subject: </span></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Delectables" 2008.02.02 (05) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 03/02/2008, at 5:59 PM, R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><ul>
<li>As Heather already mentioned, mashed potatoes and swedes (<i>tatties an neeps</i>) are an accompaniment to haggis </li></ul></span></blockquote>When I prepare a Shepherd's Pie I add a layer of mashed swedes over the meat base. I then cover it with cheesy mashed potatoes</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and oven bake.I process the meat with a medium carrot and some onion prior to cooking.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Just happens that I have some left over roast lamb from last night sooo........<blockquote type="cite">
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<li>Before
pumpkins were commonly available in Britain, Halloween was celebrated
with hollowed-out swedes as "jack o' lanterns" in England and as<span> </span><i>tumshie lanterns</i><span> </span>in Scotland.<br></li></ul></span></blockquote>In Lothians we called Swedes "Neeps" and the l.ights "Neep Lanterns".</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Plump wee bairns were referred to as "Right wee Tumshies" and the vegetable could also be used as a term of endearment to</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
a child or even pet. eg "Ye're Yer Mammie's Wee Tumshie".</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Regards</font></p>
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