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
Barley grains in quantity produced (141 million tonnes) behind maize, rice and wheat. The Old English word for 'barley' was "bære", which traces back to Proto-Indo-European and is cognate to the Latin word "farina" "flour". The direct ancestor of modern English "barley" in Old English was the derived adjective "bærlic," meaning "of barley". The first citation of the form "bærlic" in the "Oxford English Dictionary" dates to around 966 CE, in the compound word "bærlic-croft". The underived word "bære" survives in the north of Scotland as "bere", and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there. The word barn,