Pigs in blankets – a great Christmas lunch tradition. At least, they are now. But go back a few decades and there is no mention of them. According to food historian Neil Buttery, “they didn’t appear on tables until the 1990s…rather like the Ploughman’s Lunch, they are a creation of the food industry.”
Pigs-in-blankets topped one poll of our favourite Christmas foods this month. Here, Tom Rawstorne goes the whole hog for an exhaustive test of the best shop-bought pigs in blankets.