Dessert first: This shortbread layer cookie was capped with vanilla icing and a candied cherry; the jam between the two cookie layers might well have been cherry, too.
Previously: There's just not much call for haggis anymore, Al Stewart told me a dozen or so years back, at least not 'round here. The owner of this specialty store for Scottish, Irish, and English chow added that he still turns out meat pies on a regular basis; sausages, somewhat less often; haggis, only occasionally. (One such occasion is before Robert Burns's birthday, on January 25.) But even plucked from the freezer, sliced haggis — ground lamb with beef liver and kidney, oatmeal, plus onion and other seasonings, stuffed by Stewart's in a natural casing — fries up nicely for brekkie.
Stewart's Scottish Market (previously Stewart's of Kearny, as shown below)
338 Kearny Ave. (Halstead St.-Garfield Ave.), Kearny, New Jersey
201-991-1436
www.StewartScottishMarket.com
Closed Sunday
