Name: Superlative Beef-pudding
Ingredients: 1 fine woodcock; large beef-pudding mixture

Superlative Beef-pudding

Ingredients

1 fine woodcock
large beef-pudding mixture

Directions

Prepare

Prepare a large beef-pudding mixture.

Assemble and cook

Place the woodcock in the center of the pudding.
Cover the woodcock with the beef-pudding mixture.
Boil the pudding for four hours or more.

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: Forms the central filling, which is enclosed and cooked within the pudding.
Beef-pudding mixture: Surrounds the woodcock and forms the outer pudding that cooks around it.

“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.