Stuffed chine is a traditional dish of

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filled with herbs, typically

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, associated with the

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county of

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. 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'. The dish is simmered slowly, then served sliced cold, when it presents attractively contrasting stripes of pink and green. Food writer

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gave a recipe in ''

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, 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. In 1936 the ''Sunderland Daily Echo'' reported that chine was a traditional dish served on

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, north-east Lincolnshire.

References

External links

Food LegendsBBC 'Country Tracks' programme including feature on stuffed chinePrivate web site with history and recipe

Recipes

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