Black pudding Black pudding Black pudding is a type of blood sausage originating in Great Britain and Ireland. It is made from pork blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat groats or barley groats. The high proportion of cereal, along with the use of certain herbs such as pennyroyal, serves to distinguish black pudding from blood sausages eaten in other parts of the world. Blood puddings are often supposed to be one of the oldest forms of sausage. Animals are generally bled at slaughter, and as blood does not keep unless prepared in some way, making
Blood sausage to be supplied. Therefore, duck blood is now replaced by pig blood. In Taiwan, "pig's blood cake" () or "rice blood cake"(), made of pork blood and sticky rice is served on a popsicle stick is a very popular snack at local night markets in Taiwan. The majority of Korea's "sundae" (순대) can be categorised as blood sausage. The most common type of "Sundae" is made of sweet 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. The Korean