Superlative Beef-pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean the woodcock and remove any unwanted parts.
Place the woodcock in the center of a large beef pudding, surrounding it with beef.
Finish assembling the pudding as usual.
Cook
Boil the pudding for four hours or more until fully cooked.
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 centre of the pudding as the main filling, so it must be cleaned before cooking.
- Beef
- Surrounds the woodcock to make up the body of the pudding and carry its flavour.
The step that matters
Boil until fully cooked. Boiling for the full four hours or more ensures the centre of the pudding, where the woodcock sits, reaches a safe, fully cooked state. Stopping early leaves the middle undercooked, since dense meat and filling need sustained heat to cook through.
“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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