Ifield Vicarage Hog’s Pudding

On September 14th, 1931, a letter was received from a gentleman who wrote: ‘About 70 years ago when I was one of six private pupils at the Vicarage, Ifield, Sussex, when one of the Vicar’s pigs was killed we used to have as a second course what we called “Hog’s puddings”; they were generally served cold, done up like sausages in skins, in clusters of three or more, individually about the size of a golf ball but irregular in shape. They were more of a sweetmeat than a savoury, and broke apar