it's krupniok, good stuff, blood sausage... We all know that the British have a penchant for the disgusting and bizarre foods as well. In GB it's called the puddings. Stop being ignorant mate.
The oldest recorded recipes for kiszki [Polish plural form for kiszka, meaning intestine] come from the cookbooks of noblemens' chefs. In the 17th century, the term kiszka was used to designate both animal intestines (used as a casing for sausages) and the actual sausage-like product.
In the 1960s and 1970s the kiszka could be cut and friend in a skillet and hold it's form within it's ring of skin. Now there seems to just fall apart and turn into mush. Likely the recipe used has more fillers and less good stuff. Also the casing was much heavier in the 60s & 70s, less barley.
Sounds to me regrettably like low-fat "healthy" cooking has invaded the Polish kitchen as well:-)
Give me a good ol' Polish greasy spoon with lots of fatty dishes, kiszka prepared the traditional way, heaping portions of bigos, pirogi, red cabbage, potatoes, home-baked country bread ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!! Can't get enough of it, even if someday I'll need a cardiac surgeon.
That's spot on Maf. Kaszanka is the dark brown stuff made with cereal and blood, a bit like the English black pudding. The only time I've ever heard the term kiszka is for kiszka ziemniaczana which Mr Atch calls 'potato sausage' in English. It's actually quite hard to get now in the small Warsaw shops though I've seen it in Biedronka. It seems to be less popular than kaszanka. It sometimes has tiny bits of boczek chopped up and added to the mixture.
It's actually quite hard to get now in the small Warsaw shops
It's never been a thing in western Poland where I am... so Biedronka was the first place I ever saw it on sale. Is kaszanka in Warsaw more with barley or buckwheat?
My favorite kaszanka though was in Hungary where they do two types, blood (veres hurka) and liver (majas hurka) the liver kaszanka is very yummy and the blood version has a hint of chilli and is almost but not quite sweet.
Stores here now have kaszanka with liver (combined with blood) but not just the liver..... : (
I looked on this site to become educated, but now I am more confused than ever. My local Polish deli people (Derby, CT) said kiszka and kaszanka are the same. Who am I to argue, except that the wikipedia pictures for kaszanka look more like our Estonian verivorst (blood sausage) than the pictures for kiszka. (Both pictures taste the same).