White Pudding is a traditional Scottish oatmeal dish though it is also cooked in Ireland. White pudding is usually eaten with mince and tatties, battered and deep fried at a chip shop and served with chips as a white pudding supper and sometimes used as a stuffing for chicken, though usually an alternative white pudding recipe of skirlie is used. Some Scots like to eat slices of fried white pudding along with their cooked breakfast, though this practice is more common amongst the Irish.

What is a White Pudding

The best answer to the question what is a white pudding is really tasty! White pudding is made into tripe skins and ingredients for white pudding usually contain toasted oatmeal, onions, beef suet, spices and seasoning. Some butchers also use pork meat. Generally a white pudding is sausage shaped though the larger haggis shaped white puddings are also common in Scotland though generally called mealie pudding. Very old traditional Scottish recipes for white pudding also used to contain sheep brain matter which was used as a binding agent rather than for its flavour. Vegetarian white pudding is also available from some butchers and shops in Scotland.

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Other names for a white pudding include mealie pudding, mealy pudding or oatmeal pudding. In England it is known as Hog's pudding, especially in Cornwall and Devon.

White Pudding Recipe

For a traditional Scottish white pudding recipe Scottishrecipes.co.uk recommends the Book Maw Broon's Cookbook that has a list of white pudding ingredients and step by step instructions to make a Scottish white pudding and how to cook a white pudding. Buy Maw Broon's Cookbook at a discounted price and with free delivery available.

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