[Sca-cooks] Sauce made with blood

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:37 PM, ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> I'm doing some research on the sauce from Rumpolt called "Ein  
> Pfeffer", which is made with blood.  I'm looking for other sauce  
> recipes with blood, especially German recipes, but I'd be interested  
> in others as well.  I'm aware of blood sausage, but I'm only looking  
> for sauce recipes using fresh blood.  I found the following recipes  
> from Welserin.

In addition to the Le Menagier recipes Johnnae mentions, I seem to  
recall a number of English pottages that are essentially meat in  
sauce, in which blood is featured in the sauce. Most of the civy/cyuey  
recipes (in which onions appear to be the essential ingredient, and  
the probable source of the name) include blood. Civeys are still  
served today in France, and blood is now considered the  
distinguishing, essential ingredient, more so even than onion.

Various dishes under the heading of "chaudun" also frequently include  
blood. As with civeys, another ingredient (cooked, chopped or  
pulverized innards, such as sieved liver or other giblet-like parts)  
is usually regarded as "the without whom none" -- IOW, without which  
it is not a chaudun -- but blood is still almost always included.

Adamantius






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