1851, Mayhew, "London Labour"- He made his supper of fagots... the preparation is a sort of cake, roll or ball.. made of chopped liver and lights, mixed with gravy, and wrapped in pieces of pig's caul.

1858, Sala, "Journey due North"- The curious viands known in cheap pork butchery as Faggots.
Both from the Oxford Dictionary.

The word has a number of meanings, esp. in relation to burning of heretics at the stake, including the little embroidered figure a recanted heretic wore on his sleeve.
Another meaning pertaining to cookery is a little bundle of thyme and other spices.

And let us not forget that a bassoonist is a fagottist.