Groaty pudding

{{Short description|Traditional English food}}

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| alternate_name = Groaty Dick

| place_of_origin = United Kingdom

| region = Black Country

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| type = Pudding

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| main_ingredient = Groats, beef, leeks, onion, and beef stock

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Groaty pudding (also known as groaty dick{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40923610|title=Faggots and groaty dick: Why some foods travel and others don't|publisher=BBC News|date=2 September 2018|access-date=2 September 2018}}) is a traditional dish from the Black Country in England. It is made from soaked groats, beef, leeks, onion, and beef stock which are baked together at a moderate temperature of approximately {{convert|150|°C|°F}} for up to 16 hours. In the Black Country it is traditional to eat groaty pudding on Guy Fawkes Night.[https://www.foodsofengland.info/groatydick.html Foods of England - Groaty Dick]

It is mentioned as a local staple by Samuel Jackson Pratt in 1805.{{cite book|author=Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson)|title=Harvest-home: consisting of Supplementary gleanings, original dramas and poems, contributions of literary friends, and select re-publications, including Sympathy, a poem, revised, corrected and enlarged, from the eighth edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdNUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA276|year=1805|publisher=R. Phillips|pages=276–}}