Hackin

Richard Bradley, 1736, The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director⁵⁶

Described as ‘a pudding made in the law [stomach] of a sheep or hog ... formerly a standard dish at Christmas’, hackin was one of the many close cousins or possible forbears of plum pudding.⁵⁷ It was apparently linked to a tradition whereby the hackin ‘must be boiled b