Alternative names Rag pie Course Main course Serving temperature Hot | Type Savoury pudding Place of origin England Region or state Oldham, United Kingdom | |
Main ingredients Minced meat, onions, suet pastry Similar Ábrystir, Flummadiddle, Malvern pudding, Dock Pudding, Groaty pudding |
Rag pudding (also known as Rag pie) is a savoury dish consisting of minced meat and onions wrapped in a suet pastry, which is then cooked in a cheesecloth. The dish was invented during the 19th century in Oldham, a former mill town in Lancashire, previously at the centre of England's cotton industry. Rag pudding pre-dates ceramic basins and plastic boiling bags in cookery, and so the cotton or muslin rag cloths common in Oldham were used in the dish's preparation. Rag pudding is similar in composition and preparation to steak and kidney pudding, and may be purchased from traditional local butcher's shops in South East Lancashire.
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