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Following on from another thread, I have now tried this recipe:

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/516736

It uses beef ingredients rather than pork so it took me a while to get hold of everything. I needed 150g ox heart so when I sourced half a heart, got it home and it weighed 1.5kg I knew I had enough for a fair number of tries. I used dried herbs instead of fresh at the same 1 tsp dose. My mix looked very sloppy so I added more bread crumbs until it didn't slump when I spooned it out, it was still too sloppy to handle . With no caul fat available, I wrapped each in bacon, three pieces of supermarket unsmoked streaky/back laid out as a "star", the mix dropped in the central junction then the sides pulled up and over, fried to seal the base, then placed in a hot oven to seal the top without having to move anything. then I poured over the gravy and cooked it in the oven for another 20 minutes.

Nothing like a traditional faggot (which my wife was dreading as she doesn't like them) but truly delicious. Highly recommended.

Dave

Dave
Glad the bacon wrap instead of caul worked. Might give beef faggots a go one of these days.

laugh for the day: What to you rub on a sick pig?
Oinkment!!

Oh, sorry Matron has my cocoa and tablets ready!!

Phil

The bacon idea worked like a dream, thanks for suggesting it Panther. I feel a bit guilty that I didn't acknowledge that in my original post above:oops: .

I used watery stuff from the supermarket because it is so much more like wet clingy toilet paper than the bacon I make at home so I thought it would be easier to wrap with and have less effect on the flavours within.

Dave

Nothing like a traditional faggot (which my wife was dreading as she doesn't like them) but truly delicious. Highly recommended.

Ummmm, No Comment.

You guys really need to stop using that word or you will scare away all of the North American members!

Sorry, I just couldn't let this one go!

Chris

Dave

It could be worse if we were talking about fags.

I had my first fag when I was 15 but gave them up when I met my wife as she wasn't into that sort of thing and didn't like the smell it left on the bed sheets if I had one in bed.

There nowt wrong with a nice tasty faggot with some thick onion gravy.

faggots

faggots

faggots

Frightening things these faggots

Or theres always slavery ducks which is a "faggot" in the nude.