Black Pudding recipe

albreda

GingeG wrote:

I have invited two other Scots Mates who live near me to come round for a homemade pudding supper night!!

AHhh Beer and Grease the true lifeblood of Scotland!

How did it go?

kittykat500

I overcame my revulsion for black pudding and decided to buy some that had been massively reduced by Mr. T's. Looking for suitable recipes to disguise the taste, I plumped for this one on the BBC Food website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/blackpuddingandmashc_83005.shtml

It was surprisingly good. However, I could not coax my two sons to try it, so I'll be having it microwaved for dinner, and lunch ... Luckily I halved the recipe!

Has anyone else overcome their initial revulsion to be pleasantly surprised by a food, or recipe?

rosieben

I've always loved black pudding; I've never used it in a recipe but I'll be trying that one out, thanks for the link

I think I'll halve the amounts too.

jimmo

I really count myself lucky that my mother fed me and my sisters such things as black pudding, liver, kidney and hearts before we were able to appreciate what they were in reality.
I, sort of, appreciate your revulsion to black pudding because I rather think that when I eventually learned what it was I had already been eating and enjoying it for at least 15 years. However, if I had appreciated what it was before I tasted it I don’t think there is any way I would have been prepared to even try.
I fear your sons may be a lost cause.
Just to expand this a little in my youth stuffed hearts were my absolute favourite. My wife came close to throwing up just on the suggestion that we should try them so I haven’t had them in the last 35 years. I still miss them.
Also, I distinctly remember a night out in my early twenties when a gang of boys went to a Bernie Inn for a steak. Part way through the meal the waitress came and asked if we were enjoying our meal. I thought it was funny and said “This rump steak tastes like the !!!! end of a cow.”
That went down like a lead balloon and only two of us finished the meal.
Back to black pudding, I think Tesco black pudding is pretty poor as is ASDA. The real McCoy in supermarkets is Sainsburys but for a special treat get some Bury Black Pudding from Waitrose.

nellsbells

Rick Stein was cooking black pudding on an afternoon
prog this week he was going around visiting farmers etc
and you saw the puddings being made maybe C4 (sorry
was watching on someone elses Tv so not sure of channel)

anyway he lightly cooked black pudding and sliced apples
in butter then added some cider it looked yummy

kittykat500

My revulsion to black pudding doesn't stem from the fact that it's blood; I'm the sort of person that will eat anything, brains, kidney, heart etc. The thing that's always put me off are the blobs of fat and the smell!

My kids don't know what black pudding is - they've just seen it in breakfasts and I suppose it's the colour (or smell) that's put them off.

Let's face it, the youth of today are far more concerned with consuming copious McDonald's and KFC's and think homemade/homegrown food is pants! Mine used to be so different but age and peer pressure has changed their views, unfortunately.

emay

I used to think I hated it (I think because I knew what it was) until I went away with b/f and didn't want scare him off by ofloading half my brekkie onto him, so ate it...and loved it!!!!

My mum was a pretty decent cook, my made a god awful curry, so i always said I never liked curry...until i tried one my mum hadn't made, lol!

But my mum was one of those 'you sit there till its eaten' or 'if you don't finish it now you get it reheated later' (and she meant it) types, so i've pretty much always eaten anything that gets plonked in front of me (including the whelks my mum ordered me in france cause the waitress told her they were a type of fish!)

nesssie1702

Oh I love black pudding and I'm lucky to be close to a part of the world where it's a pretty famous variety - Stornoway Black Pudding

There are some tasty recipes here

http://www.charlesmacleod.co.uk/recipes.htm

and

http://www.wjmacdonald.com/Default.asp?page=15

My own favourite recipe is a slice of cooked black pudding on top of a grilled Portobello Mushroom, topped with some grated cheese and melted under the grill or in the oven

champys

kittykat500 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/blackpuddingandmashc_83005.shtml

Has anyone else overcome their initial revulsion to be pleasantly surprised by a food, or recipe?

Thanks for the recipe, kittykat - we love black pudding and this seems a fantastic way of eating it for us: French black pudding is superb but also very soft, so it is hard to keep it in one piece unless you grill it.

I recently bought a kilo of prize-winning black pudding at a food fair, and have frozen it in portions. This recipe will definitely figure on next week's menu plan!

As for 'initial revulsion' stories, I had never eaten heart before as I associated it with something people gave to their dogs. When I received half a heart free with our organic beef delivery, I found a recipe via this site and cooked 'beef heart braised in wine' - it was totally delicious!

teeni

Lamb hearts stuffed with sausagemeat is absolutely gorgeous and very cheap to make.