Keeping and Storing Black Pudding

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Postby BriCan » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:41 pm

wheels wrote:I'm playing about with Cornish/Devon ones at the moment.


The one that I usually do (and quite like) for the customer is as follows copied from my book.

Cornish .
10 lbs Lean pork
4 lbs Fat pork
2 lbs PAB (rusk)
2 quarts water

Chop (grind) fine and mix well together. Then fill into beast runners, tie into legths about 2 lbs each and boil from 40 - 50 minutes.
Seasoning.
4 1/2 lbs Salt
2 lbs White pepper
1/2 oz Rubbed Parsley
1 oz Rubbed Thyme
1/4 oz Ground Mace
1/4 oz Ground Nutmeg.

Seasoning is a bulk mix. Use 1/2 oz to each 1 lb Hogs Pudding mixture.

The following is how I did it which was as I said a big hit with my customer who repeated the order many times

14 lbs Pork shoulder
2 70 gm rusk
500 ml. Water + -
Spices: for 14 lbs meat (6.350 Kg)
1 oz = 28 gm / 2 = 14
14 x 6350 = 88’900 or 89 gm
I used 90gm of seasoning.

I normally coarse grind the meat into a container and keep to one side, place spices and rusk into the other side of the container separate from the meat. Add water to rusk and spices, mix in the water then mix in the slurry into the meat making sure that it is well combined. Regrind with the fine plate and stuff into the desired casings, tie into a horse shoe with an approx weight of about a pound each. Place in 'hot' water (190 degrees F) and simmer for about 40 minuets. I do my blacks this way but only for 30 - 35 minuets.


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Postby wheels » Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:39 pm

I also have the book Robert. Finney's "Handy Guide for Pork Butchers". I was lucky enough to get an almost mint copy of the 1938 issue for only £7.

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Postby BriCan » Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:29 pm

wheels wrote:I also have the book Robert. Finney's "Handy Guide for Pork Butchers". I was lucky enough to get an almost mint copy of the 1938 issue for only £7.


Mine is dog eared, but I was lucky, was given it via a customer :D

My array of books is endless with some dating back to the 1700 and maybe before. My misses rolls her eyes whenever I step inside an antique book shop.

On my desk here at work,
British Cookery Second Edition 1988
Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Practical Cookery. Ceserani and Kintonn
The River Cottage Cookbook
Manual of a Traditional Curer
Home Sausage Making 1994
Charcuterie
and that's the short list :cry:

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Postby wheels » Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:02 pm

Wow.

My oldest's a William Kitchener from 1823, but regrettably there's no curing or sausage in it!

I keep meaning to sell some of my cookery books on Ebay 'cos I've got boxes of them that I can't fit on my shelves.

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