On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:54:19 PM UTC-4, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> I was looking over the soy sauce selection at the Asian store and some
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> Healthy boy Brand "Black Soy Sauce" caught my eye.
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> It is thickened with molasses, and since I like molasses, I thought it
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> It is thick enough that if you tilt the bottle, you can't see light
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> through it for a couple minutes. I would be more tempted to call it
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> soy flavored molasses, than molasses flavored soy sauce.
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> It might be too much for me for a dipping sauce. I've tried it on
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> white and brown rice, some lentils, and a couple vegetable and bean
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> salads.
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> I can't place what it would be 'just right' for. Any thoughts on a
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> recipe that would benefit from the very molasses flavored soy sauce?
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> I haven't tried cooking with it yet-
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> Jim

It is used like a food colouring in certain dishes, if regular soy sauce does not give a dark enough colour. So it is not used by itself outside of cooking.