Find the best black pudding

BLACK pudding, blood pudding, boudin noir in France, morcilla in Spain, goes back as far as history is recorded.

In Italy they like chocolate in their black pudding, and Japan, the latest country to embrace the black stuff, created a stir when it entered last month’s annual ‘Knights of the Black Pudding’ competition in Normandy.

Irish recipes vary in proportions, but they usually consist of blood, traditionally fresh, but these days, to cope with large quantities, it is usually dried.