Svartsoppa [SEP] country of origin
Svartsoppa
Svartsoppa ("Black soup") is a soup consumed traditionally and mostly in the province of Skåne in Southern Sweden. The main ingredient is goose blood (or sometimes pig blood). It is often eaten before the goose dish at the "Mårtens gås" or "Mårten gås" dinner on the 10 November, the eve of Saint Martin (11 November), a surviving remnant of the Roman Catholic feast dedicated to Martin of Tours. Goose is traditionally eaten at this feast over large parts of Europe,
family. If not, he would be served a bowl of golden czernina, made without the duck's blood, as a symbolic rejection of their proposal. It is a plot element in "Pan Tadeusz", a famous Polish epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz.
It is also a regional dish in Kashubia, Masuria and Poznań.
Czernina is very similar to Swedish svartsoppa.
See also.
- Blood as food
- Duck blood and vermicelli soup
- Chicken and duck blood soup
- List of