Right, you lot! I need Black Pudding!!!!!!!

[Kermit power]

bga said:

Kneetrembler said:

WRONG, If you have ever had Morcillo de Burgos you would not have made that comment as it has none of those items that you mention in it.
In particular it has rice in it and it certainly is not sweet.
It is normally cut in very thick slices and served plain grilled

The morcilla they sell in the Mercadona where we stay definitely has spices in it. It is a bit sweeter than the black pudding we get in the UK but have never had any with raisins though

There's your problem right there - Mercadona! There were "raisins" in it, but they were mechanically recovered raisin pulp used for mass production.

Get down to the gastronomía section of El Corte Inglés for the proper stuff. That doesn't have raisins in it either. It has whole grapes. And little edible people who turn them into raisins in your mouth, just before you chew, so you get the visual appeal of the grape coupled with the taste sensation of its little wrinkled cousin.

Probably.

[otolith]

Don said:

Aren't all Black Puddings poached first, anyway? Then you slice and fry to get a nice browned outside...

That's the Southern way of doing it, yes, usually eaten with a fried breakfast. It ruins the texture of the pudding, IMO. When I was a lad, my father and I had a tradition of black pudding for lunch on a Saturday - simmered to reheat, skinned on the plate and served with ovenbottom muffins (just to start a regional bread roll nomenclature war while I'm at it), salt, pepper and English mustard. This is the traditional way of eating it - see:

http://www.blackpuddingsbury.co.uk/index.php?s=rec...

Essentially treating it more the way you would treat a haggis and less like a namby-pamby Continental slicing sausage

You can't do it with the ones they sell down here - if you try, they just burst in the pan.

[Don]

You've really, REALLY made me want to have some again. Might see if I can't get some for the weekend. Mmmmm.

[otolith]

I think I'll have to get myself some for the freezer next time I'm up North.

[Kneetrembler]

poprock said:

Interesting … so morcilla de Burgos is as different from normal morcilla as Stornoway black pudding is from the inferior English stuff. Good to know. I’ll have to try it someday.

Ask for Morcillo de Burgos in particular in Spain as like the U.K. there are various types of Black Pudding available and each with its own ingredients, but all equally delicious.