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Rag pudding with chips and gravy
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Rag pudding is a savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England;[1] the name does not refer to the contents of the dish but to the cloth in which it is cooked.[2] Said to have originated in the mill town of Oldham, it consists of minced meat and onions wrapped in a suet pastry, which was in turn originally wrapped in scrap cloth from the local cotton mills; today cheesecloth is used instead. The whole is then boiled for about three hours.[1]

References

  1. p. 48
  2. p. 96

Bibliography

Warrender, Keith. Manchester’s Oddities: Curious People and Places Around Manchester. Willow Publishing, 2011.
Yarvin, Brian. Ploughman’s Lunch and Miser’s Feast. Harvard Common Press, 2012.