The black bream (US: black pomfret) is a sea bream with greyish-brown skin and some golden stripes found in the Mediterranean and North Sea. It is a good bream for cooking, but does not have quite such good flavour as white pomfret.
Black bryony is a perennial climbing gourd found in hedgerows. The young shoots should be soaked in salted water before cooking but taste a little like asparagus. The plant becomes poisonous as it ages, and the berries and tubers are poisonous at all times. Best avoided.
Previously one of the most abundant of the ungulate species of the Indian Subcontinent, numbers of this antelope were decimated by hunting and loss of habitat. They are now thriving in Texas and Argentina.
The black buffalo fish is a type of buffalo fish, a freshwater sucker with dark brown skin and sweet, white, lean flesh. It is similar to carp and very versatile and plentiful in the Great Lakes and Mississippi valley.
A rich, dark, spiced fruit cake made with whisky and treacle and wrapped in short crust pastry. It resembles Christmas pudding. Traditionally it is eaten on the stroke of midnight at hogmanay (New Year's Eve) with a glass of whisky.
Butter heated until it is dark brown and with a few drops of vinegar and sometimes capers added, served especially with skate and brains.
A dried bean which is round, part white and part black.
