Treat two

Not only do we have a baker up the road from where we are staying in Ashburton, we also have a butcher. Which as well as good looking beef and pies, also sells a range of pork products, including hogs' pudding, known to metropolitan foodies as white pudding.

Pudding one

Not having a suitable frying pan to hand, pricked, and baked entire for about half an hour. Wouldn't have done this with our regular puddings which have plastic rather than animal skins. Served with root vegetables, both boiled and baked, boiled potatoes and boiled crinkly cabbage. All went down very well - quite peppery, as before, so plain boiled vegetables very appropriate.

Pudding two

Sufficiently impressed that I rushed out after lunch to buy another one to take home with us, with the lady in the butcher looking well pleased that we had come back for more. While the lady customer there at the same time had never heard of either hogs' pudding or white pudding and we had to put her right. Back at the holiday cottage, BH thought that their having a green check wrapper to match our tablecloth at home in Epsom was a nice touch.

Reference 1: http://www.dartmoorbutchers.co.uk/. Where the suggestion is that they buy and kill their own meat. Perhaps even grew some of it, when they started out, 75 years or so ago.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/groats.html. The last occasion, about six months ago. These ones from Tavistock.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/second-communion.html. Our regular white puddings, from Slomers.