[Sca-cooks] black puddings

[Stefan li Rous]

Elysant said:
> 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).

In part I may have been thinking of those types of puddings. But then
haggis is boiled, right? And that is a lot closer to this sausage
type pudding that you describe than it is to the sweet puddings.

Hey, before I joined this list my main exposure to pudding was the
instant kind that you add the powder to the milk and stir it together
and chill.

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