Hannah Woodall, recently widowed, began curing her neighbours' pigs into ham, bacon and Cumberland sausage in Waberthwaite in 1828. Her family has kept the trade going ever since, and the business is now run by the seventh, eighth and ninth generations working together from the same shop, which still doubles as the village's Post Office counter. The Traditional Cumberland Sausage recipe carries Protected Geographical Indication status, made to a formula of at least 95 percent shoulder pork and spices once landed at Whitehaven docks. Woodall's hams have gone to Everest base camp, appeared on the Titanic's 1912 menu, and earned a Royal Warrant in 1990 for supplying Cumberland sausage to the late Queen. Orders go out by the firm's own vans across the Cumbrian coast and by regional mail order.
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