Odd food recipe request with back story :)

[SaggyNaggy]

Many moons ago I travelled to Scotland and toured all over. In every one of the ten or so B&Bs I stayed they served a Full English breakfast, all of them except one
They served a Scottish Breakfast with square sausage, Bacon, egg, beans and the subject of this post.

Does anyone have a recipe for proper Scottish Breakfast Fruit Pudding?
I keep googling and finding Clootie Dumplings and other things but no Fruit Pudding Suasage style, fried lightly etc.

Many thanks.

[SealSong]

Can't find a recipe, but you can buy it here.

[SaggyNaggy]

Thanks Seal im tempted to get the "Serves 12" one and see how many of me it serves.... Just one.

[prettybird]

You'll probably find it freezes well. I buy Stornoway black pudding which is the best and cut it into slices and freeze it. It fries well from frozen.

I asked dh (who is more "traditionally" Scottish than me) if he knew a recipe. He didn't believe that it wasn't possible to find a recipe on-line, and then looked for himself.....

[GipsyDanger]

I'm sure we always called it 'white' pudding, but now I'm totally doubting myself

[SaggyNaggy]

I think white pudding is a different t thing, white pudding has no fruit in it, fruit pudding does?
I don't know....


The thing I remember was like spotted dick only sliced and fried.

[prettybird]

According to dh, white pudding is different to fruit pudding (can't comment myself as I don't like any fruit puddings eaten as savoury). Love black pudding though

[GipsyDanger]

At the end of the day, we're Scottish. We'll deep fry it and eat it for breakfast

[WankersHacksandThieves]

White pudding as far as my experience goes is an oatmeal based sausage type thing but without meat - fruit pudding is something else - never seen a recipe though.

[EnglebertSlaptyback]

Sealsong, thank you!!!! I've loved fruit pudding since I was little and I've been relying on friends smuggling it across the border!

[Igneococcus]

My butcher sells that. I always wondered how it tastes but never tried it. I'll buy some next time I'm there. Is it very sweet?

[cdtaylornats]

I've never heard of anyone making it. I personally don't like it I prefer a tattie scone.

White pudding is different it's like black pudding without blood

[TallulahTheTiger]

I've a few of the Broons cookbooks (if you know who they are!) I'll have a look for a recipe.

[ootsideinbacktaefront]

White pudding is rank, got offered it it Ireland thought it was fruit pudding, crushing disappointment.

[WankersHacksandThieves]

Ah that picture doesn't look anything like white pudding as I know it. I'm referring to the sausage shaped oatmeal crumbly thing. It's never nice outside of Edinburgh - the differing types is probably why.

[cdtaylornats]

That is the sausage shaped crumbly thing after slicing with a couple of bits of black pudding for comparison

[bearleftmonkeyright]

Is it clootie dumpling?

[bearleftmonkeyright]

Ignore, sorry it's in your op

[HirplesWithHaggis]

I know exactly what OP is looking for, and it's not the same as white pudding or clootie dumpling. Wiki lists the ingredients (wheat, rusk, sultanas, cinnamon etc) but not the quantities or cooking method, which is frustrating. And, like others, I can't find a single recipe online!

[WankersHacksandThieves]

cd - no, definitely not the same - the white pudding I'm thinking of wouldn't slice- it's like oatmeal. I've had white pudding in inverness and it was like eating stodge - probably the same stuff as in the picture sliced. never been brave enough to try it anywhere else :(

[Groovee]

We buy it in Asda from Malcolm Allan.

[prettybird]

It's obviously a closely guarded family recipe

[SaggyNaggy]

Well I'm at least glad that others can't find it online. I was worried my internet jockey skills were slipping.

[HirplesWithHaggis]

But prettybird, all of the butchers (and why butchers? Their main contribution would be suet...) who sell it claim to be using a "traditional recipe". Why can't any of us find it online? [frustrated]

The closest I found was a teabread, but that's not right either.

[prettybird]

It does indeed seem strange. Must be a very special secret recipe.

[wigglybeezer]

I made a rather plain clootie dumpling once with less fruit than usual and it was really quite fruit puddingish. I like fruit pudding too, buy it in the butchers occasionally, I suspect it has quite a lot of suet in it.