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Black Pudding Old Elizabethan Recipe To make fine Black Puddings
Take the Blood of a Hog, and strain it, and let it stand to settle, putting in a little Salt while it is warm, then pour off the water on the top of the Blood, and put so much Oatmeal as you think fit, let it stand all night, then put in eight Eggs beaten very well, as much Cream as you think fit, one Nutmeg or more grated, some Pennyroyal and other Herbs shred small, good store of Beef Sewet shred very small, and a little more Salt, mix these very well together. |
| | Ensure your Guts very well scoured, and scraped with the back of a Knife, fill them but not too full, then when you have tyed them fast, wash them in fair water, and let your water boil when they go in; then boil them half an hour, then stir them with the handle of a Ladle and take them up and lay them upon clean straw, and prick them with a Needle, and when they are a little cool put them into the boiling water again, and boil them till they are enough. Black Pudding Old Elizabethan Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from for Black Pudding is written in totally different way to today's recipe books. |
- There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
- Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
- Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
- Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
- It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking
The History of the Recipe Book - Some of the language might be referred to as 'Olde English'
- The art of cooking and the recipe was passed verbally from one generation to the next
- The first printed book ever to be published in English was in 1474.
- Most Elizabethan women were unable to read.
- The idea of a Recipe Book was an entirely new concept
- The first Recipe Books to be printed in England which included many old Elizabethan and Medieval recipes were called:
- 1545 - 'A Propre new booke of Cokery'
- 1588 - 'The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her kitchen'
- 1596 - 'The Good Hyswife's Jewell'
- 1610 'Mrs. Sarah Longe her Receipt Booke'
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Black Pudding Old Elizabethan Recipe The above Old recipe is taken from the book by Hannah Woolley (1622-1675) printed at the White Lion in Duck-Lane, near West-Smithfield, London in 1672 entitled: The Queen-like Closet
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