Sliced sausage
Sliced sausage, also known as Lorne sausage, flat sausage, square sausage or slice, it can also be referred to as slab as opposed to link, is a food product most often eaten in Scotland. Sausage meat – which may be pork or beef – is set into a square and sliced into pieces generally about 3 inches (76 mm) square by about 1⁄2 in (13 mm) thick. The sausage is rarely a perfect square given the minced state of the meat, which is often bound with other ingredients such as rusk.
Square sausage remains a favourite in Scottish cooked breakfasts and is often eaten in a bread roll. The square sliced sausage is also the ideal size to make a sandwich using one or two slices from a Scottish plain loaf.
[edit] Name
Lorne sausage is often said to be named after Tommy Lorne a Scottish music hall comedian of the 1920s.[1] This unlikely rumour was possibly started by Lorne himself.[2] Lorne is an area of Scotland.
[edit] Cooking
Square sausage is either deep or shallow fried in oil or placed under a grill for around ten minutes.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/lornesausage.php The History of the Square Sausage
- ^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/98481.html The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tommy Lorne
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