Boiled & Steamed

Boiled puddings are the first and true puddings in the world. They come from the necessity and logic of using up every bit of an animal, meaning the blood, the offal and the guts. The ancestors of all puddings are the sausage-type stuffed guts of Ancient Greece and Rome. It is nearly impossible to know whether stuffed guts were eaten in England before the Roman pudding-eaters extraordinaire arrived. I just think it is probable and logical that they would have been, in order to eat from nose to tail.