Slátur Slátur Slátur (Icelandic: pronounced slau:tər) or "slaughter", is an Icelandic food made from the innards of sheep. There are two types of slátur; blóðmör (Icelandic) or "blood pudding" and lifrarpylsa ("liver sausage"). The first is similar to Irish and British black pudding and the latter similar to Scottish haggis although neither contain the spices used in British and Irish cuisine. They are also much smoother in texture. Ingredients for slátur are sheep's blood, chopped or minced sheep's fat, chopped onions, oatmeal, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, thyme, pepper, salt, whole milk and sausage skins. Both blood pudding and liver pudding are prepared
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,