Strange food

just for peggy

FAGGOTS OR SAVOURY DUCKS:

Someone asked about Faggots, also known as Savoury Ducks. This recipe, enjoyed all over Yorkshire, is yet another example of how ingenious women, forced by chronic poverty to buy the cheapest of foods, were able to create tasty and nourishing dishes to sustain our ancestors, without whom we would not be here to argue about things today. You will notice this recipe calls for a pig's caul. Don't ask. Make the faggots without it.

1 lb. pig's liver
2 medium onions
4 oz. fat pork
Pinch of thyme
Generous 1/2 teaspoon powdered sage
Pinch of basil
Salt and pepper
Pinch grated nutmeg
1 egg
Breadcrumbs
Pig's caul

Slice the liver, onions and pork thinly. Put in a saucepan with the thyme, sage, basil, salt, pepper and nutmeg and barely cover with water.
Simmer for 1/2 hour, then strain off the liquid and save for the gravy. 
Mince the contents of the stewpan finely.

Add the beaten egg and sufficient breadcrumbs to make into a fairly firm mixture and mix thoroughly.

Form into balls and enclose each one in a piece of caul. 
Place in baking tin, and add a little gravy.

Bake at 400 until nicely browned.

Serve with a good thickened gravy.

If preferred, the mixture can be pressed into a well greased baking tin and marked into squares. Cover with caul and cut into squares after cooking.

6 servings.

Thanks James, I had no idea what they were, I guess it may be because I am Sylly Suffolk.

I wonder who is going to try them first. Pigs Liver YUK

Here's an interesting informative explanation of caul. Bon appetit (or possibly "Zut alors!" depending on your level of disgust)!

http://www.gourmetfoodsource.net/caul.htm

I think that's probably why you have such a lovely complexion, Peggy.

Or is it the Bombay oysters? 

Oh my goodness I've just neen reading this after my cheese and potato pie and vegetables

There must be other vegetarians on here but where are they ???