Foods that can be modified by inclusion of blood in the recipe?

[u/lil_chaotic_gremlin_]

So, long story short I have a little thing I am writing and for some reason, during the big parts of developing it I really focused on blood pudding. Not that kind, but like Japanese pudding, the custard stuff, however made a little different so it's made with blood (and therefore, tastes better than regular custard pudding to a vampire 😅).

It makes me wonder though, how much of human food this can be done to? Mainly desserts? I don't consume a lot of vampire media apart from a bunch of fics I've read and one *really* goes into detail about different blood dishes, like coagulated blood jellies and plasma, different kinds of blood from certain blood types, diets etc etc (and I frickin' love it), but what about human foods?

Ig if this doesn't really apply, it makes sense because in what world would vampires really consume human food? Well, for me (and I'm gonna guess a lot of places, please educate me😭) in this lovely little universe it is a thing, as it, along with regularly consuming blood, ofc, makes a vampire look more "human." There's details for that, but it's a lot of words and I don't wanna do any lore dumps😭😭😭

As for how the custard pudding would be made, the standard molds would be used and the little bit of caramel at the bottom. The custard would be made normally, but instead of using additional egg yolks to thicken the mixture, blood would and it'd be carefully mixed with the warm cream so as to not mess with the proteins and stuff. It's used as a thickening agent for the custard :3

Why is it a thing and why is the protagonist making them? Because her lovely vampire roommate loved pudding as a human 😅😅

I know cooking with blood isn't easy as ofc, when it comes to heat, it denatures and turns into a sort of blob, but I also know of actual dishes (one actually similar to the custard pudding, Italian, I believe) that include blood. I feel like it'd be super easy to use blood as a thickening agent for desserts and stuff. You could probably source blood from people with certain diets that make it taste sweeter? Idk 🫠

Also, I'm new here, I hope this is the right tag?? I apologize if it isn't djhshahjakfjdj

edit: wait i don't think you can use it as a thickening agent ._. i think my plans have been foiled 😭😭😭😭😭😭

edit to my panicked edit: plans are fine lol

[u/Good3itch]

Tasting History YouTube channel with Max Miller makes a spartan blood soup, viking blood bread, honey roasted heart (medieval?). Other real life blood recipes include black pudding which is a kind of sausage in Britain and the rice dish Arroz de Cabidila

[u/lil_chaotic_gremlin_ → u/Good3itch]

oooooo my family and I really like his channel lol, I will have to watch those videos for sure (and future references, ofc)

[u/Fennel_Fangs → u/Good3itch]

Northflowo is another YouTuber who cooks with blood! She’s Finnish, so she has a video making traditional blood pancakes.

[u/GrassyMossy]

You can substitute egg for blood with an almost 1/1 ratio. Happy cooking! ^{^}

[u/probablygoblins]

Ice cream! Sanguinaccio dolce is already a frozen custard thickened with blood, just usually pigs blood. It’s SO good. Chocolatey with a slight minerality.

[u/LizardLover265 → u/probablygoblins]

Oh! Oh! This will be perfect for my undead fic! Thank you for this lovely tidbit!

[u/Hanzz96]

I feel like a shot of blood like a shot of espresso would work in coffee

[u/Bladey_667]

In germany, we also have something called "Blutwurst" or in english "blood sausage". Never liked it, wanted to try it as a kid (because of blood and vampires and what not) and there is actual animal blood worked into the sausage which makes it pretty gross when cutting it. Not a fan but you could look up the recipe if you are interested.

[u/Tacticalneurosis]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dR846JS3zbA&pp=ygUSdmlraW5nIGJsb29kIGJyZWFk&ra=m

This is the YouTube video Tasting History did for Viking blood bread. I tried it once - don’t listen when he says it doesn’t need salt. Yes it does. Maybe not as much as regular bread, but it definitely needs it.

[u/Coal-and-Ivory]

Theres a Szechuan restaurant near me that makes blood tofu. Its actually great and you can just kinda use it in anything you might put actual tofu on.

In general you're looking at a lot of soups, stews, sausages, and like 40 kinds of "blood curd" (basically the above blood tofu)

You can also use it to make cakes, basically unlevened bread pancakes.

Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list on their "Blood As Food" article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_as_food

[u/R-orthaevelve]

Theres and entire book about this, called the "Dracula Cookbook of Blood" I believe, by Ardin C. Price. It has quite a few recipes.

[u/Mahalia_of_Elistraee]

High temps would probably break down cells in the blood and evaporate the water and plasma in the blood, so your best bet is something liquid and made at cool temps. It all depends on if the components of the blood need to be intact for a vampire to get anything out of it.

[u/lil_chaotic_gremlin_ → u/Mahalia_of_Elistraee]

Yeah, the proteins are what break down and with the water and plasma boiling away, it's severely reduced to some thick... thing. It also apparently smells awful so a human would be sick, vampires (I wanna imagine) wouldn't be able to tolerate it at all. I'd imagine it'd be the case where vampires get the nutrition mainly from blood because something in it, whichever component it could be or just all of it in it's entirety. So if you boiled blood or used too much heat, it'd render it useless to them. So that's why I was like, custard pudding works 😅 I also love how much you can use blood in dishes tho, it's fascinating

[u/MistyApparition]

This made me remember a video on blood pancakes, I hope this helps lol

https://youtu.be/bQcGprXpjk0?is=-2UOW4P_KDvq393V

[u/SmolHumanBean8]

Apparently there's a known conversion rate in baking with eggs.

[u/Little_Wintry]

Pasta but instead of marinara it’s just blood :)

[u/cupcake0kitten]

You can substitute egg for blood in baking. There's also a lil joke about tomato's so ketchup could work and then of course blood sausage and blood wines

[u/Ninlilizi_]

I made blood pancakes once. They had a Mediterranean kind of savoury flavour. Quite enjoyed.

[u/dragon-swan]

In Mexico there's a dish called "moronga" it's basically blood sausage

[u/Panda-Head]

Blood soup and black pudding (blood sausage) exist, and apparently blood can be used in place of eggs in a lot of recipes, including cakes.

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