Shaggy ink cap. A type of fungus which is edible when young. The cap overhangs so that, rather than the more common round cap, the shaggy ink cap has an elongated ovoid shape. It has shaggy scales which, when young, are white but which become darker with age. As it ages it becomes quite unpleasant to eat and eventually dissolves into a puddle of black liquid, giving it its English name.
"Black soup." Czernina is a dark soup made with duck or goose blood, sometimes pig's blood after slaughter, thickened with chicken livers, served with croûtons or noodles, and traditionally given by the parents of a young girl to a young man whose attentions are unwelcome.
Elephant garlic or wild leek. A head of garlic having a large single clove and bearing more resemblance to a leek.
Elephant garlic or wild leek. A head of garlic having a large single clove and bearing more resemblance to a leek.
Sand leek. According to garlic grower Ron Engeland, sand leeks are edible but seldom cultivated, and have a shorter flower stalk and fewer and more inconsistently shaped cloves than Rocambole garlic with which they are often confused. Sand leeks also have a dark violet bulb wrapper.
