[Sca-cooks] crunchy jello and squid ink

[Betsy Marshal]

Central Market and/or Whole foods frequently has "Forbidden Rice" which
cooks up a seriously dark purplish black. I even tried soaking some wool in
the rice water( put in too much for the rice amount I used,) but it only
came out bluish gray, not purple.
Betsy

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Subject: [Sca-cooks] crunchy jello and squid ink

<snippage>
Can anyone think of any other all black food, either period or  
modern? Is the rarity because of it's appearance or the difficulty of  
coloring a food black?

Stefan
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