Stuffed chine

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Stuffed chine
CourseMain
Place of originUK
Region or state Lincolnshire
Serving temperatureCold
Main ingredientsPork, parsley

Stuffed chine is a traditional dish of salt pork filled with herbs, typically parsley, associated with the English county of Lincolnshire. [1]

Contents

The neck chine, a cut of a pig taken from between the shoulder blades, is preserved in brine. The meat is then deeply scored and much chopped parsley and other ingredients are stuffed into the cuts. The other ingredients are normally kept secret but an 1894 recipe from the Grantham Journal recommended, in addition to parsley, 'a little thyme, mint, pot marjoram, young cabbage leaves and lettuce'. [2] The dish is simmered slowly, then served sliced cold, when it presents attractively contrasting stripes of pink and green.

Food writer Jane Grigson gave a recipe in The Observer in March 1984. [3]

The poet Paul Verlaine, who in the mid-1870s spent a year as a schoolmaster just north of Boston, liked stuffed chine so much that he tried unsuccessfully to find it elsewhere in England. [4]

In 1936 the Sunderland Daily Echo reported that chine was a traditional dish served on Trinity Sunday in Old Clee, north-east Lincolnshire. [5]

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References

  1. "Local Butcher's account of the historical significance of stuffed chine" . Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  2. "Lincolnshire Stuffed Chine" . Grantham Journal. 29 December 1894. Retrieved 15 February 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Grigson, Jane (3 November 2005). "Observer classic". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  4. "Great British Kitchen" . Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  5. "Crocus Colouring" . Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. 18 May 1936. Retrieved 15 February 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.

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