Blood sausage usually served with freshly grated horseradish. Black pudding is the native British version of blood sausage. It is generally made from pork blood and a relatively high proportion of oatmeal. In the past it was occasionally flavoured with pennyroyal, differing from continental European versions in its relatively limited range of ingredients and reliance on oatmeal and barley instead of onions to absorb the blood. It can be eaten cold, as it is cooked in production, grilled, fried or boiled in its skin. It is often served sliced and fried or grilled as part of a traditional full breakfast, a tradition
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,