When Michael Mosley used his own blood in a recipe for black pudding
For centuries, blood has inspired the wildest flights of our imagination. We’ve even supposed it can cheat death, restore us to youth. But the truth is far stranger and more extraordinary.
To reveal the nutritional value of this sticky red liquid, Michael added a rather gruesome ingredient to a recipe for black pudding: his own blood.
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Would you eat a black pudding made with your own blood?
Michael Mosley eats a black pudding made with his own blood.
How to make your own black pudding
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Mor Macleod, from the Isle of Lewis, shares her method for making black pudding at home. She describes how to clean and prepare the parts of the sheep, how to mix the ingredients and how to stop the pudding bursting.
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Black pudding is a blend of onions, pork fat, oatmeal, flavourings - and blood (usually from a pig). As long as animals have been slaughtered to provide food, blood sausages like black pudding have been in existence.
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