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 literally "blood sausage"), and include buckwheat as a main filler, instead of oats or oatmeal. In Ukraine it's called "krov'yanka" (кров'янка) or "kryvava kyshka" (кривава кишка), "kiszka" or "kaszanka" in Poland, "krvavnička" in Slovakia and "krupniok" in Silesia. Polish "salceson" ("black" and "") are a type of head cheese ("brawn") 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, called "krvavica" (крвавица), made out of