(Also with hyphen.) A kind of sausage made of blood and suet, sometimes with the addition of flour or meal.
1568. Fulwel, Like to like, B j. Who comes yonder puffing as whot as a black pudding.
1634. Heywood, Maidenh.-lost, III. Wks. 1874, IV. 142. We will haue … sixe Black-Puddings to bee serued vp in Sorrell-sops.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. III. 380. In Lyrick numbers write an Ode on His Mistress eating a Black-pudden.
1873. E. Smith, Foods, 80. Sausages and black puddings.
