Blood sausage

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Black pudding

Black pudding (Boudin noir), before cooking
Alternative names	Blood pudding Morcilla Boudin noir Lancashire pudding
Serving temperature	Hot or cold
Main ingredients	Blood
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Black pudding or (less often) blood pudding is an English term for sausage made by cooking blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. It is also called blood sausage (first attested in 1868, perhaps influenced by German Blutwurst). Although "blood sausage" is often labeled as a North American term, it is also found in English (e.g., in the story "The Name-Day" by Saki). "Blood sausage" is also used as a term for similar blood-based solid foods around the world.

Pig or cattle blood is most often used; sheep and goat blood are used to a lesser extent. Blood from poultry, horses and other animals are used more rarely. Typical fillers include meat, fat, suet, bread, sweet potato, barley and oatmeal.

Black pudding is usually served as part of a traditional full breakfast in England, Scotland and Ireland. The further addition of the similar white pudding is an important feature of the traditional Irish breakfast and is also common in Scotland. Black pudding can be eaten uncooked but is often grilled or boiled in its skin.

The Greater Manchester town of Bury is noted for its black pudding, as is Ireland's south west County Cork town of Clonakilty, which exports black pudding as a delicacy item. One of Co. Clare's iconic foods is Bonina Black Pudding. Originating from Miltown Malbay in the west of the county, it is made using traditional methods and is less processed than better known brands. Black and white pudding, as well as a third variant from Fife—red pudding—are served battered at chip shops in Scotland and England as an alternative to fish and chips.

The most common variant of German Blutwurst is made from pork rind, pork blood and filler such as barley. Though already cooked and "ready to eat" it is sometimes served warm. In Berlin, hot Blutwurst mixed together with liverwurst and potatoes is called "Tote Oma" (Dead Grandma). In the Rhineland, where it is also traditionally made from horse meat, fried Blutwurst is a part of various dishes. Another German variant is Zungenwurst, which is Blutwurst mixed with pieces of pickled ox's tongue.
A variety of Blutwurst, the Rotwurst from Thüringia (Thüringer Rotwurst) has geographical indication protection under EU law, with PGI status.

In France boudin is a traditionally prepared by a charcuterie, the shops that mainly prepare pork products (but also duck and game), also selling smoked and dried sausages, pâtés, and terrines, along with prepared salads. It may also be called boudin noir and often has apples or onions as a filler. It is always served with either cooked apples, mashed potatoes or both, and is appreciated by combining either the apples or mashed potatoes with each bite of boudin, which has been gently heated and browned in butter. In France also, there are many regional different Boudins Noirs' such as the large 'Boudin du Béarn with pork meat pieces eaten usually cold.

In Belgium, bloedworst or beuling is sold either in 4 inch diameter slices, or individual sausages the size of a banana. It is generally pan fried; sometimes apples are cooked alongside or on top of the pieces. It is also eaten with apple sauce, brown sugar or syrup.

Spanish morcilla has many variants. The most well known and widespread is "morcilla de Burgos" which mainly contains pork blood and fat, rice, onions, and salt. In Albacete and La Mancha the morcilla is filled with onions instead of rice, which completely changes the texture. It is claimed that this is the original morcilla and rice was introduced in them to reduce costs (rice expands while onion reduces thus needing more raw material). Other varieties introduce breadcrumbs, pine nuts, almonds and vary the proportions of the other ingredients or flavorings, producing even a sweet morcilla from Galicia in the northwestern region, which is fried and served most commonly as a dessert.

In Portuguese cuisine there are also many varieties of black pudding, ranging from some similar to the Spanish morcilla, known in Portuguese as morcela, to some done only with blood (known as chouriço de sangue).

In Iceland, blóðmör is one of two types of slátur. Usually boiled in its skin and eaten hot. Also fried but usually the day after it is boiled (as leftovers).

Blodpudding is popular in Sweden, and there are variants such as blodkorv (blood sausage), blodplättar (blood pancakes) and blodpalt. There is also a soup made from blood, called svartsoppa (black soup). One traditional way of serving blood pudding in Sweden is with bacon, cabbage, and lingonberry jam.

Alongside the mustamakkara (black sausage) in Finland, a dish similar to black pudding is made by making batter out of pig's blood and baking it like pancakes. Traditionally rye flour or oatmeal is used and minced onion is added to the mix. This dish is called veriohukainen (blood pancake). It is similar to the Swedish dish blodplättar above, and is alternatively called veriletut (using a Finland-Swedish term for pancakes instead of a native Finnish one). A dish similar to Swedish svartsoppa is a traditional North-Finnish soup made of bloodpudding rössypottu.

In Estonia, verivorst (blood sausage) is very similar to Finnish mustamakkara. It is sold and eaten mostly in winter, being a traditional Christmas food. At that time there is a large variety of verivorst in stores, ranging in different shapes and sizes. Verivorst is usually cooked in an oven, but sometimes also fried on pan. Like in Finland, verivorst is often eaten together with lingonberry jam, but occasionally also with butter or sour cream. Another similar dish is called verikäkk (blood dumpling). Its popularity has decreased during the past decades (possibly because of its less appealing commercial appearance) and has mostly been substituted by verivorst.

Throughout Eastern Europe, blood sausage known as kishka (meaning “intestine”) is made with pig's blood and buckwheat kasha. It is also known in Russia as krovyanka (кровянка), or krovyanaya kolbasa (кровяная колбаса, literally "blood sausage"), in Ukraine as krov'yanka (кров'янка) or kryvava kyshka (кривава кишка), in Poland as kiszka or kaszanka, and in Silesia as krupniok. Polish salceson ("black" and "Brunszwicki") are a type of head cheese that contains blood. In Hungary, véres hurka is made with rice, pig's blood and pork. In Bulgaria karvavitsa (кървавица) is usually prepared with pig's blood, fat and a variety of mountain herbs and spices and eaten warm during the winter. A similar blood sausage is also eaten in Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia.

In Romania, the traditional sângerete (Romania) (from sânge, "blood" in Romanian) is made from shoulder butt pork meat, pork blood and a filler such as pre-boiled rice seasoned with pepper, garlic and basil. It has many regional variants, but the most common are the sangerete from Transylvania.

Similarly in Czech jelito is made from pork, pig's blood and groats; the stuffing served by itself, unformed is called prejt.

Among English-speaking North Americans, the consumption of black pudding and similar dishes is largely confined to certain ethnic groups with strong Old World traditions as well as French Canadians and recent immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and so forth. Blood sausages are very difficult to find in American supermarkets. Brussels, WI and Sturgeon Bay, WI are both home to local grocers who produce blood sausage, due to their large Belgian population.

An Italian-American version of black pudding in the San Francisco Bay area is called "Biroldo" and has pine nuts, raisins, spices, pig snouts and is made using either pig blood or cow's blood.

Cajun boudin is a fresh sausage made with green onions, pork, livers (usually chicken), and rice; pig's blood is sometimes added to produce "boudin rouge".

In many areas of Latin America (as in Spain) morcilla is served. Morcilla is sometimes made with a filler of rice and/or onions, and seasoned with paprika and other spices. In Puerto Rico it is made spicy-hot and served fried. In some countries of South America, morcilla is a traditional component of the asado, a regional mixed grill or barbecue meal. Morcilla is also eaten inside a sandwich called "morcipán," especially in Argentina and other Río de la Plata countries; in Uruguay, although not in Argentina, a sweet and sour version including raisins and pine nuts is popular. In Chile it's called prieta. In Panama and Colombia, it's called morcilla, rellena or tubería negra, and is usually filled with rice and peas. Contrary to beliefs, this version is usually deep-fried, and it is quite popular. In Brazil (as in Portugal) morcela and chouriço de sangue are eaten.

In Guyana, the main ingredient in black pudding is cooked rice seasoned with traditional Caribbean herbs, such as thyme and basil. The rice is mixed with cow's blood, stuffed into Cow or Pig intestine, and boiled until firm. It is served as an appetizer or snack, often with any type of hot sauce, mild to hot, depending on preference and regional area.

In Suriname, black pudding is also known under the Dutch name bloedworst, and white pudding under the also Dutch name vleesworst.

Across Asia, various people create foods from congealed animal blood. Most of these foods do not have casing and might be considered a version of sliced sausage.

In Taiwan, pig blood cake (Chinese: 豬血糕; pinyin: zhū xiě gāo) is made of pork blood and sticky rice. It is fried or steamed as a snack or cooked in a hot pot.

A similar dish from the Philippines, dinuguan (from the word dugo meaning "blood") (pork-blood stew) is a stew consisting of diced beef or pork meat and organs with pig or cow blood simmered in a rich, spicy gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili and vinegar. Because many non-Filipinos find the dish revolting, the euphemism "chocolate meat" was coined. Dinuguan is often served with white rice or a Filipino rice cake called puto.

In Mainland China, "blood tofu" (Chinese: 血豆腐; pinyin: xuě dòufǔ), or "red tofu" (Chinese: 红豆腐; pinyin: hóng dòufǔ), is most often made with pig's or duck's blood, although chicken's or cow's blood may also be used. Like the above dishes, this has no casing but is simply cut into rectangular pieces and cooked.

This dish is also known in Java as saren, made with chicken's or pig's blood.

In resource-poor Tibet, congealed yak's blood is a traditional food.^[1]

The majority of Korea's soondae (순대) can be categorized as blood sausage. The most common type of soondae is made of potato noodle (dangmyeon), barley, and pig's blood but some variants contain sesame leaves, green onion, fermented soy paste (doenjang), sweet rice, kimchi, bean sprouts, in addition to the common ingredients.

Vietnamese 'dồi tiết' (Northern) or 'dồi huyết' (Southern) is blood sausage, boiled or fried, made with pork blood, pork fat, basil.

In Thailand sai krok lueat (Thai: ไส้กรอกเลือด) is a blood sausage (Thai: sai krok = sausage, Thai: lueat = blood), often served sliced and accompanied by a spicy dipping sauce.

Other varieties of blood sausage include blodpølse (Norway and Denmark), tongeworst (with added pigs tongues) (Netherlands), boudin rouge (Creole and Cajun), rellena or moronga (Mexico), sanganel (Friuli), and ragati (Nepal).

Members of the group monochrom prepared blood pudding out of their own blood and ate it. The performance (staged in 2003 in Vienna) was accompanied by political essays about the 'autocannibalistic' tendencies of the global economy. The event, called "Viennese Factionism: Auto-Blood-Sausage", also can be interpreted as a critical statement about art, art history and the art market (Viennese Actionism). ORF FM4, Arte

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