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{{short description|Scottish meat dish}}
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| name             = Red pudding
| image            = Wiki red battered.jpg
| image_size       = 250px
| caption          = A single [[Batter (cooking)|battered]] [[deep fried]] [[chip shop]] red pudding (approx. 8" long), sliced open
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| country          = Scotland
| region           = Eastern Scotland, particularly [[Fife]]  
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| main_ingredient  = [[Bacon]], [[beef]], [[pork]], [[pork rind]], [[suet]], [[Rusk#Butcher.27s rusk|rusks]], [[wheat flour]], [[spice]]s, [[fat|beef fat]]
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'''Red pudding''' is a [[meat]] dish served mainly at [[chip shops]] in some areas of [[Scotland]]. Red pudding is associated with the east of Scotland, particularly [[Fife]], but has become less common in recent years.<ref name=hs>"[http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12293060.More_nights_on_the_batter/ More nights on the batter]", ''Herald Scotland'', 05-09-1997, accessed 22-06-18. "the other thing that is very popular is the pudding - white puddings, black puddings, haggis, and red pudding, which is a bit like the English saveloy. The red was very popular in Fife when I was a young boy, but it disappeared for a long time, and now you're tending to get the smoked sausage supper taking its place".</ref> Its main ingredients are [[beef]], [[pork]], [[pork rind]] or [[bacon]], [[suet]], [[Rusk#United Kingdom|rusk]], [[wheat flour]], [[spice]]s, [[salt]], [[fat|beef fat]] and [[Carmine|colouring]].

The mixture is formed into a [[sausage]] shape of roughly eight inches in length, similar to [[black pudding|black]] and [[white pudding]] and the chip shop variant of [[haggis supper|haggis]]. The pudding is usually cooked by being coated in a [[Batter (cooking)|batter]], [[deep fried]], and served hot.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nz0pCgAAQBAJ&q=%22red+pudding%22+scotland&pg=PT113|title=Sausage: A Global History|first=Gary|last=Allen|date=September 15, 2015|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=9781780235554|via=Google Books}}</ref> Bought on its own, it is known as a "single red"; when accompanied by chips, it is known as a "red pudding supper".{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Boudin]]
*[[Scrapple]]

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