[f. LIVER sb.1 + -ing, ? after pudding.] A pudding made of liver and rolled up in the form of a sausage.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xii. 217. Oure mete now begyns;… Two blodyngis, I trow, a leueryng betwene.
1556. Withals, Dict. (1568), 49 a/1. Tomaculum, ex iecore porcino cibus fit, vt supra, a lyueryng.
1591. A. W., Bk. Cookrye, 12 b. To make Liuerings of a Swine.
1611. Cotgr., Fricandeaux: Short … daintie puddings … rolled vp into the forme of Liuerings.
1624. Chapman, Homer’s Batrachom., 58. Lyurings (white-skind as Ladies).
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 159. The Darbyshire huswife … when she makes whitings and blackings, and liverings and hackings.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. xxvii. (1737), 122. Chitterlings, Links,… Liverings.
