Sausages of Britain

These are normally fresh types for cooking; they differ from the general run of such sausages in having a significant cereal content. This difference has only been visible since the latter part of the 19th century, when industrial production of sausages began and manufacturers, anxious to have a mass market, sought to keep costs down. The idea of combining meat with cereal in a sausage-like casing was by no means a new one. haggis is an antique and excellent example of the combination. But up to this time English sausages had been like continental ones in being made more or less entirely of meat of some kind.