18th Century: Cabbage Pudding

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Preparation info
  • Makes 1 pudding in a

    17 cm

    /No. 30) basin (mould)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pride and Pudding: The History of British Puddings, Savoury and Sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2016

  • About

This dish was also known as a ‘cabbage farce’ or ‘forced’, meaning forcemeat, which is stuffing meat. It really is excellent and looks very pretty and rustic on your dinner table.

To make a Cabbage Pudding

Take two pounds of the lean part of a leg of veal, of beef-suet, the like quantity, chop them together, then beat them together in a stone m