black pudding ftw or ftf?

[Funky_monks]

Black pudding is made of win!

Its not just for breakfast either. Just had half a black pudding ring sliced lengthways (so, a quater of the whole), with mash and green beans from the garden for tea.

Its also nice 'raw' spread on sarnies (it is, of course already cooked).

 

[WouldBe]

Yum.


Not sure my low cholesterol diet would agree though.

 

[hiccup]

Never used to like it, but fried breakfasts in Dublin have conveted me.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's lovely stuff

 

[moomoo]

It's revolting.

 

[kyser_soze]

I hated it for years, then went to St John in Clerkenwell and had some and fell in love with it.

Not too often, and as kittyP says, sliced nice and thin...fucking lovely tho...

 

[Disaster]

I'd rather fucking die.

 

[8den]

Irish black pudding FTW. But a close second is South American Black Pudding it's very tasty, a bit sweeter.

 

[Strumpet]

*retches*

 

[Cloud]

If you want really good black pudding then go to Barnsley, of course don't ever go there fo any other reason what ever you do!

The market, head there for quality blood sausage cos the stuff they sell at tesco is absolutely crap.

Tesco used to sell really good white pudding which is a fav of mine but they have recently stopped.

Full breakfast with white and black pudding and some nice toasted soda bread is awesome.

Maybe me dad was right and my great great grandmother came over here from cork for an abortion that never happened, I've got bent teeth and an unatural attraction to the potato so maybe I am slightly Irish after all althout I can trace family on the name side to Wales.

 

[ViolentPanda]

FTW, even though it's totally non-kosher!

 

[Fullyplumped]

This stuff is wonderful, made with sheep's blood not pig's blood. So it's a bit kosher-er as well!

Shop bought black puddings from the supermarket are awful, though. It would be nice to be able to get Irish and the posh English ones in our shops, but I've never seen them. It's hard enough to find the good stuff here.

I remember walking into my auntie's kitchen when I was little and seeing a white plastic bucket full of blood on the floor. She was going to be making black puddings. It took me a wee while to work out what it was then I felt faint.

Didn't stop me enjoying them for breakfast.

 

[tarannau]

FTW, but it's obligatory to say that West Indian black pudding is better - lighter (rice replaces the cereals) and usually with far more of a pepper kick.

I've just found that the old lady in the Guyanese food wagon in Brixton makes her own black pudding for sale every Saturday. Will have to go and find out if it's a patch on my grans. A bit like FP above, I still remember going shopping for bags of blood and watching my gran make the stuff.

 

[Dovydaitis]

could just eat a hash brown and black pudding sandwich now!!

 

[becki1701]

I've never tried it as the very concept of it makes me shudder....despite being a meat eater, so can't say honestly whether I like it or not

 

[pogofish]

If you want really good black pudding then go to Barnsley,

Or Stornoway - splendid puds from there too!

Coffee Pot cafe by the docks, proper greasy spoon, does a full breakfast roll The works with local black pudding, plus a bit of local white & fruit puddings on the side. Perfect start to the day!

 

[Chairman Meow]

Clonakilty black and white pudding? Yes please!!!!!!!!

This is correct. Whenever we visit Clonakilty we always get some in the butcher's shop that makes it.

 

[Fedayn]

Am a veggie now but I used to love black, white and red pudding. Boudin noir and andouillette. Love it.

A great recipe for the black puddin' lovers.


1 x 1" slice of large black pudding
1 medium slice of lancashire cheese
1 large potatoe.

Grate the potato mix with s&p, place cheese ontop of slice of black pudding. Mold greated potato ie 'rosti' around the bp and cheese covering it completely. 'Flatten' the potato cake slightly and lightly shallow fry on both sides.
Place in oven a 220c and bake until golden brown.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

French black pudding (boudin noir) is the loveliest. It has a really velvety texture.

Amen. Split a cold one open and spread the contents on warm, toasted baguette and you've got a preview of heaven.

Want. Now.

 

[Structaural]

French black pudding (boudin noir) is the loveliest. It has a really velvety texture.

I had that recently, it is really tasty, smoother than black pudding. I love it all.

 

[Chz]

I used to think it was utter fail.

Then I had the MacLeod's Stornoway black pud that some people have already mentioned. It changed my mind forever. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

 

[Iam]

Total win.

 

[El Jefe]

I don't eat meat, but if I did I still wouldn't eat black pudding.

Fried fucking scab? Nein danke

 

[longdog]

Black pudding is one of those things I think I like but don't.

It doesn't make me vomit or anything and I'll eat it if it's in one of those hangover cure fry-ups at the fatty-fum but I'd much rather have another sausage.

 

[eoin_k]

Morcilla - the Spanish cousin of Black Pudding seems to have been neglected on this thread.

Available from Garcia's on Portobello Road, I'd strongly recommend it.

 

[Cloud]

My old man used to eat it raw.

Like I've already said - I love it but don't think I could bring myself to eat it uncooked.

Aie I remember my dad testing it raw at a butchers stall... yerk!

 

[WouldBe]

My old man used to eat it raw.

Like I've already said - I love it but don't think I could bring myself to eat it uncooked.

Aie I remember my dad testing it raw at a butchers stall... yerk!

It's already cooked just cold.

 

[spanglechick]

it's ok. not as nice as sausages, so i'm not quite sure of the point. rather too peppery for me, iirc (similar prob with haggis) - but i've only had it a couple of times so maybe i've not had the good stuff.

i marginally prefer white pudding, for the texture. more moist.

 

[lang rabbie]

French black pudding (boudin noir) is the loveliest. It has a really velvety texture.

George Stafford's of Stanley Common near Ilkeston in Derbyshire used to produce a black pudding that regularly won awards in the Boudin Noir class in both France and Belgium and was himself elected to the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Goute Boudin.

I'm not sure whether the shop is still there or if the business has been bought out by another butcher in the Ilkeston area.

 

[hektik]

i love black pudding.

one of the nicest meals i ever had at a restaurant was pork belly on a bed of black pudding hash : mashed potato, mixed up with black pudding, then fried.

ooooh, it was gorgeous!