Cumberland Sausage

This is probably one of the most famous of British sausages, thought to be the meatiest of them all. Some butchers in Cumberland actually claim they are made with 98 per cent pork. But there are a number of people who feel that the real Cumberland has long gone. The sausages were once made from a special breed of pig and they say its last sow died in 1960.

The most instantly recognizable feature of Cumberland sausage is that it is not twisted into individual sausages, but made in lo