Golden Sixthread Tesselfish. A silvery estuarine fish which shoals around reefs, rather similar in appearance to a grey mullet. It is a bottom-feeder, feeding on small crustaceans and bottom-living organisms, adding to its own flavour. It is sold in Bengal and Bangladesh fresh, frozen, dried and salted.
Black treacle. Known in the United States as molasses. In the manufacture of molasses, light molasses comes from the first boiling of the sugar syrup and is generally used as a syrup to served with desserts. Dark molasses comes from the second boiling and is less sweet, but thicker and darker than light molasses and is used in cooking robust foods such as gingerbreads or Boston baked beans. Blackstrap is the result of the third boiling, and is consequently even darker and more concentrated, but even less sweet. It is commonly used as cattle feed. It is erroneously thought to be nutrient rich.
Molluscs cover a huge array of sea creatures, some of which do not even bear shells. They consist of the gastropods, creatures such as the abalone, sea snail and limpet, which live in a single shell and are soft bodied, boneless; the bivalves which live in a double, hinged shell and include mussels, oysters, clams, cockles and scallops; and the cephalopods, including the octopus and squid.
