Guyanese Black Pudding

Ingredients

Filling

• 2 pts rice
• 1 coconut, grated
• 4 oz salt meat
• eschallot
• celery
• thyme, broad and fine leaf
• married man poke
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• salt
• sugar
• 1 pint blood of cow
• limes or lime juice

Procedures

1. Clean the runners with lime juice and salt until free from mucus.
2. Cook the rice with the grated coconut and salted meat. Allow to cool when finished.
3. Mix the rice with chopped herbs, spice, salt and Sugar to taste.
4. Strain the blood over this mixture and mix together until rice is evenly coated and free of lumps.
5. Fill the runners using a funnel, making sure that there is no space left after filling.
6. Tie the ends of the runners and boil gently for about 20 minutes. Prick with a skewer to test for "dampness". When thoroughly cooked, the blood is congealed around the grains of rice.
7. When quite finished, allow to cool and darken before brushing with oil.