Blood Pudding (or sausages) are served in French, Belgian, German, British, Quebec, Acadian, Creole, Austrian and Cajun cuisine.
This Blood Pudding a.k.a. Boudin is baked in loaf pans instead of sausage casing.
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This is my 2nd post in the category Historic and Unusual Recipes. The first wasHow to Cook a Terrapin (or Turtle). I discovered that recipe in a very oldFanny Farmer Cookbookand posted it simply because I found it interesting. Guess what? Almost every day… week in and week out…How to Cook a Terrapin (or Turtle)appears in my list of ‘Readers Recent Favorites’. Who woulda thunk it? And now it’s gonna be interesting to see how well received this French Canadian Blood Puddingrecipe is! ; o )
I made French Canadian Blood Puddingonlyonce, using the blood from one of the pigs we raised. We planned to roast the pig on a special spit – and feed the neighbors, the local family, the family from Montreal and the family from the States.Luckily it was a BIG pig. So big it actually broke the rented spit… but that’s another story.
My husband’s family all told me I’d fed my pigs too much because, when butchered, they all had a lot of fat. They said I ‘babied’ all my animals. Hey, if you were a pig… and it was hot… wouldn’t you be happy if someone gently sprayed you with cold water. Of course you would. I rest my case.
My husband’s aunt Therese and I prepared the Blood Pudding at the Roy Family Farm in St. Flavien, Quebec (Canada) where my husband’s family has lived/farmed for the last seven generations. It’s a huge house with a huge kitchen. There’s a wood burning stove and a modern stove – a lovely mixture of old and new. (I remember visiting around 1970 and there was still a water pump in ‘The Summer Kitchen’. I’ll explain about Summer Kitchens another time.)
I just deleted the paragraph about hanging the pig upside down etc. I didn’t want to gross you out any more than necessary..
When I arrived at the old family farm with my bucket of pig blood, Ma Tante Therese (MyAunt in French.) was armed and ready with the necessary utensils and pans. Ma Tante didn’t speak much English and my French is far from great, but I managed to write down several of her old French Canadian recipes over the years, including this one for Blood Pudding, while I either helped or watched her cook. And an excellent cook she was.
My husband LOVED the Blood Pudding we’d made. And I was pretty darn proud of myself, let me tell you. I did take a tiny taste of it… Blood Pudding has an unusual texture – no surprise there. It does taste pretty good, if you can get beyond the ‘main ingredient’.
My husband loved to eat his Boudin cut into slices and fried. He especially loved it for breakfast with scrambled eggs. At the time I made the Blood Pudding my husband could only eat soft things due to oral cancer. You can imagine how pleased I was, especially at that point in his life, to have prepared something for him which he’d loved his whole life.
Life is short. Prepare your loved ones favorite dishes. Doing so truly is a gift of love!
This recipe for French Canadian Blood Pudding (Boudin) is prepared in two loaf pans.
I’m going to give you the recipe as I wrote it down – although sometimes I’ve written recipes from our French Canadian Aunts half in French and half in English.
Boudin, black pudding in English, is essentially pig's guts filled with blood and other ingredients, such as onions, spinach, etc. (French pronunciation: [budɛ̃]) The added ingredients vary in French, Luxembourgish, Belgian, Swiss, Québec, Acadian, Aostan, Louisiana Creole, and Cajun cuisine.
The boudin of Québec is made of lard, milk, onions and pork blood. It is served in a pan along with a sweet side or a sauce. Since 2018, the Goûte-Boudin de Boucherville association hands out a yearly prize for the best boudin.
Like haggis, Stornoway Black Pudding is a U.K. favorite that contains sheep's lungs. This ingredient makes it illegal to import into the United States, despite it being a regular menu item across the pond.
This mentality is evident in boudin, a Cajun sausage made of pork and rice, and other sausages like andouille and tasso, which were invented to utilize every part of a butchered animal. On the other hand, most Creole food incorporates a diverse range of ingredients and can sometimes call for complicated processes.
To pronounce it correctly, boo – like a ghost says, and then start like you're saying the name Dan, but just don't pronounce the n on the end! Boudin in Cajun Country can be found at grocery stores, delis, gas stations, weddings, birthday parties, holiday parties, but very rarely in a restaurant.
Boudin is traditionally a blend of cooked pork, rice, onions, peppers and seasonings stuffed into a sausage casing, although boudin makers today sometimes get creative with unusual fillings like seafood.
Boudin noir is a good source of protein and iron: The pork blood used in the sausage contains a high amount of iron, which is an essential mineral that helps to transport oxygen throughout the body and is important for maintaining healthy red blood cells.
Poutine. Poutine is perhaps Quebec's signature dish, consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and a rich, brown gravy. It is said to have been invented in the dairy farming town of Warwick in 1957 when a customer requested French fries and cheese curds to be served together.
Boudin's famous San Francisco Sourdough French Bread originated in 1849, in a tiny, old-world bakery on Dupont Street. There, a French immigrant named Isidore Boudin first kneaded a hearty dough, fermented with wild yeast and then formed it into the shape of a traditional French loaf.
One of the best names of any dessert, pouding chomeur translates from French to unemployed man puddling. Also known as poor man's pudding, it was created during the Great Depression in Quebec by female factory workers.
Black pudding is considered a generally healthful dish in moderation; blood provides useful quantities of zinc and iron, yet the dish can contain high levels of sodium and fat. Before her brief term as prime minister, Liz Truss, then the environment minister, listed black pudding among other “must-eat” British foods.
In the United-Kingdom and Ireland, Boudin Noir is more commonly known as black pudding, or blood pudding. It is traditionally made by mixing pork blood with a filler such as oatmeal, barley or breadcrumbs, along with pork fat, onions, fried tomatoes and a variety of seasonings.
Black pudding is also called a blood pudding or blood sausage, and in Ireland is known as drisheen. In France, black pudding is known as boudin noir and the Spanish word for black pudding is morcilla.
Boudin is made from a blend of pork cooked down with onions, peppers, seasonings, & cooked rice. This completely cooked mixture is then stuffed into a casing like sausage.
However, one of the most rare and prized dishes from the Cajun past is boudin rouge, or blood boudin, a sausage made from various cuts of pork, rice, seasonings, and the fresh blood of a pig. The sausage is steamed or smoked to cook it.
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