Lorne sausage
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Grinners_breakfast.jpg/235px-Grinners_breakfast.jpg)
The lorne sausage, also known as square sausage is a traditional Scottish food usually made from minced meat, rusk and spices.[1] It is commonplace in traditional Scottish breakfasts.
History
The exact origins of the lorne sausage remain unclear. It 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]
Preparation
Sausage meat, in this case a mixture of pork and beef, is minced and then mixed with rusk and spices and set in a rectangular cuboid tin. Once set, it is sliced into pieces generally about 10 cm square by about 1 cm thick.[3] 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][4][5]
- Named after the region of Lorne in Argyll.[2] This is a more likely explanation as advertisements for 'Lorne Sausage' have been found in newspapers as early as 1896, only 6 years after the birth of Tommy Lorne.[6][7]
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.
- ^ a b c d "Lorne Sausage, Argyll". Information Britain. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ "Lorne Sausage". Dictionary of the Scots Language. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ "Lorne Sausage Scottish Square Slices Sausages". www.aboutaberdeen.com.
- ^ Catherine Brown (21 August 2011). Classic Scots Cookery. Neil Wilson Publishing. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-906476-56-4.
- ^ "Scotslanguage.com - Lorne sausage n. square-shaped sausage meat".
- ^ Archive, The British Newspaper. "Results - Arbroath Herald and Advertiser For The Montrose Burghs - Publication - British Newspaper Archive". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.