Savoury Pudding

Name: Savoury Pudding
Yield: Serves 8 or 10
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ¼ lb. (120 g.) fine oatmeal; 1–1¼ pints (7½ dl.) milk; ¼ lb. (120 g.) breadcrumbs; 3 oz. (90 g.) flour; 2 eggs; 1 tablespoon chopped sage, thyme and parsley; pepper and salt; ½ lb. (240 g.) onions, very finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
8 or 10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cookery of England

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1975

About

Made on the big farms of Cumberland and Northumberland in the nineteenth century, as the farmers’ ancestors had made it for generations. It sometimes had prunes or raisins in it. To eat with pork or goose.

Ingredients

1–1¼ pints (7½ dl.) milk
¼ lb. (120

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
England

Method

Heat the milk and pour it over the breadcrumbs and oatmeal. Let it stand for 10 minutes, then beat in the eggs. Mix the suet, herbs and seasoning with the flour, add the onions, and mix into oatmeal mixture. Beat thoroughly, adding a little extra milk if necessary. Bake for about 1 hour, and serve with pork or goose in the same manner as a Yorkshire Pudding.