[Sca-cooks] black puddings

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>Elysant answered my question about how black pudding was packaged
>and then said:
>> To cook black pudding you slice it and
>> fry or grill it.  Yummy :-)
>
>Is this how it was done in period? Do we have evidence for this? Or
>was it simply boiled?

Almost all the pudding recipes in "The English Huswife" (1615) mention
broiling/grilling the pudding before serving.

K.

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