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A '''hoggan''' or '''hogen''' is a type of [[flatbread]] containing pieces of pork, and often root vegetables, apple also becoming a popular addition, historically eaten by Cornish [[miner]]s and labours in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Any food eaten by miners had to be tough to withstand the harsh conditions of the mines, and hoggans were said by one mining captain to be 'hard as street tiles'.

A true hoggan is slightly different from a [[pasty]]. The dough which was left over from pasty making is made into a lump of unleavened dough, in which is embedded a morsel of "green" (uncooked) [[pork]]<ref>Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin 'Cornwall and its People'. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1945, p. 382</ref> and sometimes a piece of potato. Historically, hoggans were often made from cheaper [[barley]] bread and have been a good indicator of poverty, reappearing when wheat prices are high.

The pasty became particularly popular in Devonport and Plymouth, where sailors called them “tiddly oggies” (also referred to as Tiddy Oggies or a Tiddy Oggy). Tiddly in naval slang means ‘proper’, a common adjective and adverb used by Cornish people, and oggie was the term for a pastie in cornwall, so “tiddly oggie” meant proper pasty. <ref>[https://americanfoodieabroad.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/hoggan/ A history of Tiddly Oggies by Ferguson Plarre  (9th Apr 2020)]</ref>

A sweet version made of flour and [[raisin]]s is known as a ''fuggan'' or ''figgy hobbin''. ''Fig'' is a [[List of Cornish dialect words|Cornish dialect word]] pertaining to raisins.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=b-jSi_8QBYwC&dq=hoggan+unleavened&pg=PA43 Balmaidens By Lynne Mayers (page 43)]</ref>

A Hobban, or Hoggan-bag, was the name given to miners' dinner-bag.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/glossarywordsin00quilgoog/glossarywordsin00quilgoog_djvu.txt ''Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall'' by Miss M. A. Courtney (1880)]</ref>


==See also==
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*[[Oggy Oggy Oggy]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Figgie_'obbin Figgy 'obbin] recipe from the Wiki cookbook

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[[Category:Flatbreads]]
[[Category:Potato dishes]]
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[[Category:Unleavened breads]]
[[Category:British pork dishes]]


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