Rich Pigeon Faggot on a Potato Cake with Mustard Cabbage

Faggots were extremely popular in the past as a means of using up odd pieces of offal left over after the pig had been killed. They are in a way a sort of cross between a pàté and a sausage, being a pàté mixture bound up in caul fat (all sausages used to be encased in animal entrails) in a sausage shape.

These faggots have a good, gamey, pigeon flavour, bound and balanced with pork and chicken livers, which give the moist texture needed to achieve a succulent finish. It’s important,