White pudding White pudding White pudding, oatmeal pudding or (in Scotland) mealy pudding is a meat dish popular in Ireland, Scotland, Northumberland, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. White pudding is broadly similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver, filled into a natural or cellulose sausage casing. Recipes in previous centuries included a wider range of ingredients. White pudding is often thought of as a very old dish that, like black pudding, was a traditional way of using up offal following the annual slaughter of
Barley crops such as millet, wheat, and legumes. Barley (known as in both Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) is mentioned many times in Rigveda and other Indian scriptures as one of the principal grains in ancient India. Traces of Barley cultivation have also been found in post-Neolithic Bronze Age Harappan civilization 5700–3300 years before present. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Jared Diamond proposed that the availability of barley, along with other domesticable crops and animals, in southwestern Eurasia significantly contributed to the broad historical patterns that human history has followed over approximately the last 13,000 years; "i.e.", why