Sage Broad Beans with Bacon and Tomato

Sage is a herb that has always been popular in Britain, particularly in stuffings. The use of sage in stuffings dates from the seventeenth century, when Sir Kenelm Digby, a diplomat, writer and amateur man of science, proposed that a simple sage and onion stuffing would be better for wild duck than the complicated, rich stuffings common until then. His suggestion became widely accepted, the mixture being used t