[Sca-cooks] meat products & the UK

[Elysant1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/06/2001 5:15:28 PM EST, mark.s.harris at motorola.com
writes:

> How is the commercial black pudding sold? Is it sold encased in
>  intestine (or something else) as a link? Or is it just packaged
>  as a blob in plastic?

I don't know if it's sold the same way everywhere in Britain, but in Wales it
is usually sold in a large link which is bent around into a circle and the
two ends are tied together to form a ring.  The casing - I'm not sure what it
is made of really.... is black and shiny, not edible, and resembles shiny
black plastic but I don't think it's plastic at all.... maybe someone else
has information on what it's made of?  To cook black pudding you slice it and
fry or grill it.  Yummy :-)

Elysant