Rag Pudding

Rag pudding

Rag pudding, with chips and gravy
Alternative names	Rag pie
Type	Savoury pudding
Course	Main course
Place of origin	England
Region or state	Oldham, Greater Manchester
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Minced meat, onions, suet pastry

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 Greater Manchester.

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