[Sca-cooks] black puddings

[Elysant1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/7/01 11:54:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, stefan at texas.net
writes:

<< Is this how it was done in period? Do we have evidence for this? Or
 was it simply boiled?
  >>

I do not have any evidence to hand regarding period cooking of Black Pudding,
but have to say that boiling Black Pudding (which is basically like a large
sausage link) sounds quite icky to me.

I wonder if you are looking at the word pudding and thinking of the puddings
like Treacle Pudding or Christmas Pudding?  That type of pudding would be
boiled/steamed etc.

It seems the word "Pudding" can denote either type of dish (as well as the
creamy type puddings such as Tapioca or Rice Puddings).

Elysant