A Hoggan or Hogen, was a type flat bread containing pieces of pork that was eaten by Cornish miners 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 to the pasty. The dough which was left over from pasty making was made into a lump of unleavened dough, in which was embedded a morsel of green pork and sometimes a piece of potato.^[1] A hoggan was a good poverty indicator that reappeared when wheat prices where high. Hoggans were often made from cheaper barley bread.

[edit] Sweet version - Figgy 'obbin

A sweet version made of flour and raisins and was known as a 'fuggan' or Figgy hobbin. Figgie/Fig/Figs are Cornish dialect words pertaining to raisins.^[2]

[edit] A pasty by another name

The name is sometimes given to a pork pasty which is where the term 'oggie' or 'tiddy oggie' derives. A Hobban, or Hoggan-bag, was the name given to miners' dinner-bag.^[3]

[edit] External links

• Figgy 'obbin recipe from the Wiki cookbook

[edit] See also

• Oggy Oggy Oggy

[edit] References

1. ^ A.K. Hamilton Jenkin in his book 'Cornwall and its People'
2. ^ Balmaidens By Lynne Mayers (page 43)
3. ^ Glossary of words in use in Cornwall by Miss M. A. Courtney (1880)

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