The word faggot means different things in different cultures and languages. Growing up in the UK, it primarily means a meatball fashioned from (if lucky), poor cuts of meat but primarily offal. It was a way to use up leftover items from slaughtering animals. In some parts of the UK these are known as savoury ducks.
Other uses of this term can be found here.
Anyway, today we had one of the 4 portions made the other day, served with the traditional mashed potato and peas:
Sorry Devon Mum, your comment went awol during posting. If minced finely enough and made into small balls, they wouldn’t know what was in them. Certainly can’t taste the liver.
ReplyDeleteYour meal looks wonderful. I always wondered what faggots were made of.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Nothing horrible nowadays.
DeleteAt least in France and Germany, you will find liver on the menues of restaurants with traditional cuisine. And there are a lot of new cookbooks with recipes "from nose to tail", using all parts of the animal which was killed for human consumption.
ReplyDeleteHilde in Germany
We used to be able to buy tubs of chicken livers to cook with but I haven’t found any recently.
DeleteFrugal Queen had a good faggot recipe, I wonder where I put it...
ReplyDeleteThis is almost hers, we have altered it slightly.
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