Woman Uses Menstrual Blood She Collected In A Jar To Bake Cookies
Jan 6, 2017
Every month when we get our periods, we might sit back and wonder what we could do with all the time we waste dealing with it, the clothes that accidentally got stained because of it, or even the material and blood coming out of our bodies. One woman allegedly decided to answer that last question in a way that might actually make you gag: she collected her period blood in a jar for a year and a half and used the collected fluids to make cookies. You might have already gagged from hearing that, and you’re not alone, because I’m writing this in a state of disbelief and disgust that this was an idea that even entered someone’s head and stayed there long enough to become a reality. However, period blood has been used for some pretty interesting things over the course of history, and while I wouldn’t recommend doing what this woman did, the other ways menstrual blood has been used over the course of time actually aren’t quite so horrifying. Here’s the story of the woman who made cookies with a year’s worth of period blood, and what she could have done with all of that blood instead.
For most of us, our periods are just something that happen to us every month. We wake up one morning, once a month, see that our periods have started, then live with it for a few days, and when it’s over, we forget about it until our next cycle shows up. It’s a part of life that we don’t particularly enjoy, but it’s something that we have to deal with.
However, one woman decided to make periods a lot worse. Not necessarily for herself, by the way, for us, because we’re the ones who have to hear about this story. She decided to get a 45 ounce jar and slowly fill it up with period blood over the course of a year and a half. “I am not sure what to do with it once it's full. I have been collecting my blood for a year and a half, and I would like to keep it. But, I am terrified of something happening and it breaking. I would be lying if I said I weren't attached to it.”
She decided to bake cookies with it. The cookies themselves look innocuous enough, but they’re allegedly made of period blood, so stay far away. “I made menstrual blood cookies! I am not entirely happy with how they turned out, so I am going to experiment with some recipes throughout the rest of this month so I can try for something great next cycle. This recipe was far too floury.”
