Re: Can We Talk About Peas?
Originally Posted by
Silver Tabby
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I may regret asking this - but what is in a faggot?
The only ones I have come across have been bundles of wood or an embroidery stitch.
Uncooked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. The mixture is shaped by hand into small balls, wrapped with caul fat (the omentum membrane from the pig's abdomen), and baked. It is a traditional dish in the English Midlands.
The first use of the term in print, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, dates from 1851, in a piece by Henry Mayhew in which he describes a dish identical to the modern product with chopped liver and lights in an outer wrapper of caul.
Cooked:
A "batch" is the name for a bread roll, bap, barm, breadcake, bun, cob or teacake in Coventry, Nuneaton and parts of north Warwickshire.