What is a black, preserved egg called?
I remember some eggs which the egg yolk is solid and black, but forgot the source(seems like preserved), what is it?(if any)
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The current most common term in English appears to be "century egg", but it's also been known as a thousand-year egg or hundred-year egg.
It's typically produced by aging in a solution of table salt, calcium hydroxide, and sodium carbonate, but traditional methods involved less refined versions of those chemicals wrapped in clay (and some quantity of rice bran).
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Century eggs (Chinese: ??; pinyin: pídàn; Jyutping: pei4 daan2), also known as preserved eggs, hundred-year eggs, thousand-year eggs, thousand-year-old eggs, century-old eggs, millennium eggs, skin eggs, black eggs or old eggs, are a Chinese egg-based culinary dish made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a ...How Do Century Eggs Get Black?
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