Making Pancakes With Blood

I feel like Dexter meets in a garden .

It's not every day that I come across a food that really surprises me .

But there I was editing a video where people took us grocery shopping around the world and somebody from Finland submitted this the least favorite one that's with blood .

It says it's blood or big pancakes made from blood .

That's different .

These pancakes are common all around northern Lapland .

So I called my friend Bjorn and asked if he could help film a story , Bjorn .

I've got a story for you .

Hi , I'm Bjorn .

I'm a documentary filmmaker that travels the world making stories that here in Sweden , we actually have a dish called blood pudding .

And I remember that this was even something that we were served in the school canteen when I was a kid .

So I traveled to a small town outside K to , so we're gonna do two things .

We are first going to go to Sweden to learn from the source all about these blood pancakes and then I'm gonna make them and try them .

So let's leave my living room .

The Sami people are an indigenous community living in the region of Sapi , which includes northern parts of Norway , Sweden , Finland and Russia .

Like Ia Maria and her family .

About 10% of Sami people work as semi nomadic reindeer herders , which means they travel to follow their reindeer as they migrate .

So .

Fantastic .

Fantastic .

After learning this , of course , I am curious .

So I had to find blood reindeer blood , obviously not so common in New York City , but I went to a butcher shop in Brooklyn , New York called Winter Butcher .

And I got two pints of pig's blood .

So we're gonna strain this because .

00 God , ok .

It looks like a murder scene in here .

Ultimately , this is a simple recipe .

It's just the blood , flour , eggs , salt and a bit of butter .

Everything just gets mixed up together and cooked on a stove .

It looks like raspberry jam since I'm in New York City .

I'm cooking it on my pan , on my stove .

As I do not have access to a campfire , we'll just have to make , do they kind of look like chocolate ?

I don't , I mean , I know it's not chocolate , but it's just the feeling like item Maria suggested .

I've got bacon and lingonberry jam and I'm just gonna put a little bit of syrup on top .

I don't have much experience with blood dishes .

I've had many types of blood sausages like sun from Korea black pudding from the UK .

That actually might be it .

But cooking with just liquid blood like this that was a first , just a little bit of , uh , lingonberry jam .

The idea of the pig's blood with the bacon .

I really feel like I'm , you know , getting the whole animal in here .

Ida Maria ate it with her hands and so I will as well .

Yeah , I'm not gonna lie .

If you didn't tell me there was blood in this , I would have thought that the texture is off .

There's definitely an earthiness to this .

But I think the biggest difference for me is a texture .

I know this might be weird , but it kind of reminds me of a stingray body .

There's kind of a rubbery ness to this .

Can you see that having some with some bacon , bacon is salty and it makes everything taste great .

Ultimately , like , am I gonna be serving blood pancakes from now on , on Sunday mornings ?

You know , probably not .

Although I do have some leftover blood .

I know that a lot of cultures do cook with blood .

I'm curious for those of you watching , leave a comment and let me know is blood a part of the culinary landscape in your country ?

And what is a blood dish that you would recommend now that I'm kind of in it .

You know , I'm in the blood zone .

If you've made it to the end , get some blood .

Try a blood pancake .

You won't be disappointed .