{{short description|Traditional Scottish food item}}
{{short description|Traditional Scottish food item}}
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| image_alt = A lorne sausage (lower right) served with black pudding, baked beans, mushrooms and fried bread on a white plate atop a table. A knife and fork rest on the left of the plate, while an empty glass is visible to the right.
| alternate_name = Square sausage, flat sausage, slice
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| course = [[Breakfast]]
| place_of_origin = [[Scotland]]
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| associated_cuisine = [[Scottish cuisine|Scottish]]
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| served = Hot
| main_ingredient = Minced meat, rusk, spices
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The ”’Lorne sausage”’, also known as ”’square sausage”’, ”’flat sausage”’ or ”’slice”’, is a [[traditional food|traditional]]Scottish food item made from [[ground meat|minced meat]], [[rusk]]and spices.{{Cite news|url=http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/food/a-history-of-square-sausage-including-a-recipe-for-making-your-own/|title=A history of the square sausage, including a recipe for making your own – Scotsman Food & Drink|date=2016-03-10|newspaper=Scotsman Food & Drink|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-05}} Although termed a [[sausage]], no [[Sausage casing|casing]]is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as square slices from a formed block. It is a common component of the traditional [[Scottish breakfast]].
The ”’Lorne sausage”’, also known as ”’square sausage”’, ”’flat sausage”’ or ”’slice”’, is a [[traditional food|traditional]]Scottish food item made from [[ground meat|minced meat]], [[rusk]]and spices.{{Cite news|url=http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/food/a-history-of-square-sausage-including-a-recipe-for-making-your-own/|title=A history of the square sausage, including a recipe for making your own – Scotsman Food & Drink|date=2016-03-10|newspaper=Scotsman Food & Drink|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-05}} Although termed a [[sausage]], no [[Sausage casing|casing]]is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as square slices from a formed block. It is a common component of the traditional [[Scottish breakfast]].
Traditional Scottish food item
The Lorne sausagealso known as square sausage, flat sausage or sliceis a traditional Scottish food item made from minced meat, rusk and spices.[1] Although termed a sausage, no casing is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as square slices from a formed block. It is a common component of the traditional Scottish breakfast.
It is thought that the sausage is named after the region of Lorne in Argyll;[2] advertisements for ‘Lorne Sausage’ have been found in newspapers as early as 1892.[3][4][5] This was long before comedian Tommy Lorne, after whom the sausage has been said to be named, became well-known: he was born in 1890.[6][7]
The exact origins of the Lorne sausage remain unclear. It is often eaten in the Scottish variant of the full breakfast or in a breakfast roll. The sausage is also an appropriate size to make a sandwich using a slice from a plain loaf of bread cut in half.[2]
Sausage meat (beef, pork or more usually a combination of the two) is minced with rusk and spices, packed into a rectangular tin with a cross-section of about ten centimetres (four inches) square, and sliced about one centimetre (one-half inch) thick before cooking.[8] Square sausage has no casing, unlike traditional sausages, and must be tightly packed into the mould to hold it together; slices are often not truly square.[2]
Occasionally, it has a length of caseless black pudding or haggis through the middle, in the style of a gala pie.
