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Superlative Beef-pudding

A beef pudding containing a woodcock, surrounded by beef, boiled for at least four hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Superlative Beef-pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a large beef pudding.

  2. Place the woodcock in the center of the pudding.

  3. Surround the woodcock with beef, both under and over it.

  4. Finish assembling the pudding as usual.

  5. Boil the pudding for at least 4 hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Woodcock
Serves as the central filling, the main feature the beef is built around.
Beef
Forms the outer meat layer that surrounds and encloses the woodcock.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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