The fir eats / Julia Hartbeck
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How to Make Homemade Classic British Faggots Meatballs with Mashed Potato and Onion Gravy
Faggots are an old-fashioned British dish and one that has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent years. How nice that there is renewed interest in this humble meat dish perhaps because they are so easy and cheap to make.
Traditionally faggots are made from organ meats usually pork and the parts of the animal that are generally discarded but now usually just the liver and possibly the heart. The ground meat mixture is then wrapped in a type of fat either netvet or lard and fried.
While this dish unfortunately shares the same name as a swear word in American English the word in British English comes from the way the dish is prepared and presented. The British word "faggot" is an archaic term for a bundle of sticks. For this dish a minced meat mixture is wrapped in some kind of fat – often caul fat but in this recipe bacon – before being cooked hence the name's implication of something being bundled.
