[Sca-cooks] Is this nigella?

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Perhaps someone could describe what nigella seeds look like and I can 
> verify this from that? The web photo I found was inconclusive. I may 
> just have to take this to a local Cook's Guild meeting and see if 
> someone there knows what these are.

Hmm. there's a picture on Gernot Katzer's spice pages 
(http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/)

They are dark black, smaller than fennel or anise. The distinctive part 
is that they are sort of sharp cornered. Not as sharp as, say, cardamom, 
but definitely triangulate as one of the sources says. If you can find 
armenian string cheese where you are, compare the seeds in it to what 
you've got.

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