Hoggan

For the surname, see Hoggan (surname).

A hoggan or hogen is a type of flatbread containing pieces of pork, and often root vegetables, apple also becoming a popular addition, historically eaten by Cornish miners and labours in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Any food eaten by miners had to be tough to withstand the harsh conditions of the mines, and hoggans were said by one mining captain to be 'hard as street tiles'.

A true hoggan is slightly different from a pasty. The dough which was left over from pasty making is made into a lump of unleavened dough, in which is embedded a morsel of "green" (uncooked) pork[1] and sometimes a piece of potato. Historically, hoggans were often made from cheaper barley bread and have been a good indicator of poverty, reappearing when wheat prices are high.

The pasty became particularly popular in Devonport and Plymouth, where sailors called them “tiddly oggies” (also referred to as Tiddy Oggies or a Tiddy Oggy). Tiddly in naval slang means ‘proper’, a common adjective and adverb used by Cornish people, and oggie was the term for a pastie in cornwall, so “tiddly oggie” meant proper pasty. [2]

A sweet version made of flour and raisins is known as a fuggan or figgy hobbin. Fig is a Cornish dialect word pertaining to raisins.[3]

A Hobban, or Hoggan-bag, was the name given to miners' dinner-bag.[4]

## See also

[edit]

* Cornwall portal

* Oggy Oggy Oggy

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin 'Cornwall and its People'. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1945, p. 382
2. ^ A history of Tiddly Oggies by Ferguson Plarre (9th Apr 2020)
3. ^ Balmaidens By Lynne Mayers (page 43)
4. ^ Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Miss M. A. Courtney (1880)

## External links

[edit]

* Figgy 'obbin recipe from the Wiki cookbook

* v
* t
* e

Culture of Cornwall

Cornish: Gonisogeth Kernow

Symbols|

* Celtic cross
* Cornish chough
* Cornish heath
* Cornish kilts and tartans
* Jonathan Trelawny
* Michael An Gof
* Saint Piran
* Saint Piran's Flag
* Scillonian Cross

Festivals|

* AberFest
* Allantide
* Chewidden Thursday
* Furry Dance
* Golowan
* Guldize
* Kernewek Lowender
* Montol Festival
* Mummer's Day
* Nickanan Night
* Nos Lowen
* Noze looan
* 'Obby 'Oss
* Picrous Day
* St Piran's Day
* Tom Bawcock's Eve

Sports|

* Cornish hurling
* Cornish pilot-gig racing
* Cornish wrestling
* Rugby union in Cornwall

Cuisine|

* Cloam oven
* Clotted cream
* Cornish cheeses
* Cornish cream tea
* Cornish fairings
* Cornish Gilliflower
* Hevva cake
* Hog's pudding
* Pasty
* Saffron bun
* Stargazy pie
* Cornish Yarg

Arts|

* List of Cornish writers
* Tristan and Iseult
* Cornwall Film Festival
* Tate St Ives
* St Ives School
* W. J. Burley
* Charles Causley
* Newlyn School
* Barbara Hepworth
* Daphne du Maurier
* William Golding
* Alan Kent
* H. C. McNeile
* Rosamunde Pilcher
* Derek Tangye
* D. M. Thomas
* Minack Theatre
* The Pirates of Penzance

Music|

* Cornish bagpipes
* Brenda Wootton
* Dalla
* Fisherman's Friends
* Crowns

Folk songs|

* "Bro Goth agan Tasow"
* "Camborne Hill"
* "Come, all ye jolly tinner boys"
* "Delkiow Sivy"
* "Hail to the Homeland"
* "The Song of the Western Men"

Language|

* Anglo-Cornish
* Cornish literature
* Ordinalia
* Beunans Meriasek
* Bewnans Ke
* Prayer Book Rebellion
* Radyo an Gernewegva

Mythology|

* Beast of Bodmin
* Blunderbore
* Bucca
* Cormoran
* Cruel Coppinger
* Jack the Giant Killer
* Knocker
* King Arthur
* Lyonesse
* Mermaid of Zennor
* Owlman
* Piskie
* Spriggan

Organisations|

* Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
* Gorsedh Kernow
* Institute of Cornish Studies
* Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
* Royal Cornwall Show
* Royal Institution of Cornwall (Royal Cornwall Museum)
* Movyans Skolyow Meythrin
* Akademi Kernewek

* Cornwall portal

* v
* t
* e

British pies

Sweet|

* Apple pie
* Bakewell tart
* Banoffee pie
* Bedfordshire clanger
* Blackberry pie
* Black bun
* Chess pie
* Cherry pie
* Cumberland rum nicky
* Custard tart
* Lemon meringue pie
* Manchester tart
* Mince pie
* Pumpkin pie
* Rhubarb pie
* Treacle tart

Savoury|

* Bacon and egg pie
* Bedfordshire clanger
* Bridie
* Butter pie
* Cheese and onion pie
* Chicken and mushroom pie
* Corned beef pie
* Cornish pasty
* Cottage pie
* Cumberland pie
* Curry pie
* Devizes pie
* Fish pie
* Game pie
* Homity pie
* Killie pie
* Lamprey pie
* Meat and potato pie
* Melton Mowbray pork pie
* Pork pie
* Pot pie
* Scotch pie
* Shepherd's pie
* Squab pie
* Stargazy pie
* Steak pie
* Steak and kidney pie
* Steak and oyster pie
* Woolton pie

Manufacturers|

* Clark's Pies
* Denby Dale Pies
* Dickinson & Morris
* Fray Bentos
* Galloways Bakers
* Ginsters
* Higgidy
* Holland's Pies
* Mr Kipling
* Peter's
* Pieminister
* Poole's
* Pork Farms
* Pukka Pies
* Shire Foods
* Square Pie
* Wall's
* Wrights Pies

This pie or tart-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template