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> ½ cup buttermilk (or blood [...]

Of course, it wouldn't be a viking bread without blood



You can buy this stuff in the supermarket (in Viking countries), look for paltbröd.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paltbr%C3%B6d


You can buy blood pudding in any supermarket in Sweden. It reminds you a bit of blood sausage. It's quite different from this kind of hard bread though.


Just thinking of the flavor of blood sausages makes me nostalgic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage#Germany_and_Aust...


Time to update my home cook substitution chart.

This will be handy the next time I want to make pancakes, but I'm out of buttermilk.


your family & friends should not be around when you get into shortage of buttermilk :-)


Slaughter season is coming up, and the stores will start offering buckets of blood for sale. Blood sausage is still traditionally made in many homes here in Iceland.


The Maasai people in Kenya also consume blood (cow’s blood) every now and then.


bloodermilk




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