Lorne sausage
The lorne sausage, also known as square sausage, slice sausage or a flat sausage, is a traditional Scottish food usually made from ground meat, rusk and spices.[1] It is commonplace in traditional Scottish breakfasts.
History
The exact origins of the lorne sausage remain unclear, but it remains a favourite in Scottish cooked breakfasts and is often eaten in the Scottish variant of the full breakfast or in a breakfast roll. The sausage is also an appropriate size to make a sandwich using one or two slices from a plain loaf of bread.[2]
In 2009 there was a campaign to grant protected status to the lorne sausage, meaning it could only bear the name 'lorne sausage' if it was made in Scotland.[3]
Preparation
Sausage meat – which is a mixture of pork and beef – is minced and then mixed with rusk and spices and is set in a rectangular cuboid tin. Once set, it is sliced into pieces generally about 10 cm square by about 1 cm thick.[4] The sausage is rarely a perfect square given the minced state of the meat. Unlike other forms of traditional sausage, square sausage is not encased in anything and needs to be tightly packed into a mould to hold it together.[2]
Name
There are two main theories as to where the name of the sausage originates:
- Named after Tommy Lorne, a Scottish music hall comedian of the 1920s.[2][5]
- Named after the region of Lorne in Argyll.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ "A history of the square sausage, including a recipe for making your own - Scotsman Food & Drink". Scotsman Food & Drink. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
- 1 2 3 4 "Lorne Sausage, Argyll". Information Britain. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ↑ "Bid to protect the square sausage". www.bbc.co.uk/news. British Broadcasting Corporation. 4 November 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ↑ "Lorne Sausage". http://www.dsl.ac.uk. Dictionary of the Scots Language. Retrieved 14 December 2013. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ The History of the Square Sausage