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Blood sausage or black pudding or blood pudding is a food made by cooking down the blood of an animal with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. Most often, it is pig or cattle blood that is used. Sheep and goat blood are used to a lesser extent while blood from poultry is very seldom used. A legend attributes the invention of blood sausage to an absinthe-induced bet between two drunken Bavarian butchers during the 14th century. In fact, there are ancient references to sausages made with blood, e.g. from Homer's Odyssey - "As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted. . .".In Ireland and Great BritainGreat Britain (often abbreviated as Britain is an island lying off the western coast of Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is also used as a political term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales,, blood sausage is called black pudding. The ingredients include pig's blood, suetSuet is raw beef or mutton fat, especially that found around the loins and kidneys. It is a solid at room temperature, and melts at about 21°C (70°F). It is a saturated fat. The primary use of suet is to make tallow in a process called rendering, which in, breadFor the 1970s rock and roll band, see Bread (band). British Isles, North America and Europe often eat white pre-sliced bread. Breads are a group of staple foods prepared by baking, steaming, or frying a dough consisting minimally of flour and water. Salt, barleyBarley Barley field Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus Hordeum Species Hordeum arizonicum ''Hordeum brachyantherum ''Hordeum bulbosum ''Hordeum californica ''Hordeum dep and oatmealOatmeal is a product made by processing oats. In North America, oatmeal means any crushed oats, rolled oats, or cut oats used in recipes such as oatmeal cookies. The porridge made from this is also called oatmeal. However in other parts of the English-spe. Black pudding is usually served as part of a traditional English breakfastTea English Breakfast Tea Full English breakfast.. The further addition of the similar white puddingWhite pudding is a meat dish popular in Scotland and Ireland. It is very similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Consequentially, it consists of pork meat and fat, suet, bread and oatmeal formed into the shape of a large sausage. The pudding is an important feature of the traditional Irish breakfastThe Irish breakfast is a cooked breakfast consisting mainly of pork products. The contents The traditional Irish breakfast includes at least the following fried items: pork sausages, bacon rashers, egg(s), black pudding and white pudding, accompanied by t. The Lancashire town of Bury is noted for its black pudding, as is the County Cork town of Clonakilty, which exports black pudding as a delicacy item to America. Black ( red and white) pudding is also served battered at chip shops in Scotland as an alternative to fish (see Fish and chips).
The most common variant of German blutwurst is made from fatty pork meat, beef blood and filler such as barley. Though already cooked and "ready to eat" it is usually served warm. In Rhineland, where it is also traditionally made from horse meat, fried blutwurst is a part of various dishes, see Eschweiler.
Other varieties of blood sausage include boudin noir (France), boudin rouge (Creole and Cajun), morcilla (Spain) and mustamakkara (Finland). In Taiwan, ti-hoeh-koé ("pig blood cake") is made of pork blood and sticky rice and fried or steamed for snack or used for hot pot. No animal casing is used.
