Boiled Bacon and Vegetable ‘Main-Course’ Soup

Bacon and vegetables are a common combination all over Great Britain, and have been for centuries. Bacon was always available throughout the year, and vegetables would be grown at home. This is a dish I found many years ago while filming in Northumberland. I’ll always remember having the vegetables served in a bowl of stock for the first course, which was then followed by slices of the bacon with pieces of potato and some of the liquor. The ‘pudding’ was a chunk of savoury leek dumpling, al