Square sausage served with black pudding, baked beans, fried bread and mushrooms

Square Sausage is a food product most often enjoyed in Scotland and North East England. Sausage meat – which may be pork, beef, or a mixture of the two – is set into a square and sliced into pieces generally about 3 inches (76 mm) square by about ¹⁄₂ in (13 mm) thick. The sausage is rarely a perfect square given the minced state of the meat, which is often bound with other ingredients such as rusk.

Square Sausage remains a favourite in Scottish cooked breakfasts and is often eaten in a bread roll. The square sliced sausage is also the ideal size to make a sandwich using one or two slices from a Scottish plain loaf.

[edit] Name

Square Sausage is also known as Lorne Sausage, Sliced Sausage and Slice.

Lorne Sausage is often said to be named after Tommy Lorne a Scottish music hall comedian of the 1920s.^[1] This unlikely rumour was possibly started by Tommy Lorne himself.^[2]

[edit] Cooking

Square Sausage should be either deep or shallow fried in oil or placed under a grill for around ten minutes.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/lornesausage.php The History of the Square Sausage
2. ^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/98481.html The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tommy Lorne

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