A quantity of turmeric roots and annatto seeds are pounded separately in mortars until they are reduced to a very fine state.
Yellow: Yellow straw is produced in the same manner, using turmeric and annatto only.
These are then separately treated with water and pressed, the result being a turmeric water and an annatto water.
Lastly, rub the annatto with a drachm of water till smoothly suspended; add a drachm of alcohol, and stir the colouring into the pomade until it is thoroughly mixed.
To test forannatto proceed as follows: To a couple of tablespoons of milk add a pinch of ordinary baking soda.
The curd will be brown if annatto or caromel has been used.
Pure butter is very light in color; nearly all that is sold is colored, in order to meet the popular demand for "yellow" butter; annatto and other vegetable and mineral substances are sometimes employed for this purpose.
To detect it, add one teaspoonful of baking soda to one quart of milk and immerse in it a strip of unglazed paper; in a few hours examine the paper; if annatto is present, it will have become an orange color.
Monterey Jack is a stirred curd Cheddar without any annatto coloring.
The colour given by annattoapproaches very nearly the natural colouring matter of milk fat.
If annatto is present, there will be a reddish-yellow stain on the paper.
If the milk was uncolored or colored with annatto the curd when thus treated will be white.
If annatto is present a greenish-blue color forms.
It may, however, be questioned whether annattois not sometimes adulterated with red lead.
It is perfectly harmless in the proportion in which it is used; an ounce of genuine annatto being sufficient to colour a hundred weight of cheese.
Annatto is a colouring principle obtained from the pulpy matter enclosing the seeds of the fruit of a tree, the Bixa orellana, growing in Central and Southern America.
Annatto is the coloring matter derived from the seeds of an evergreen plant, Bixa Orellana, which grows in the East and West Indian Islands and South America, in the latter of which it is principally prepared.
Following up his inquiries, he ascertained that the maker of the cheese, not finding his annatto sufficiently deep in colour, had resorted to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.
To bring the diluted goods up to a delicate cream colour, it is common to swing round a ball ofannatto in the can; and other careful observers and writers upon the adulteration of food have detected flour, starch, and treacle.
Use rain water 3 quarts, annatto 4 ounces; boil in a copper kettle till the annatto is dissolved, then put in a piece of potash the size of a walnut; keep it on the fire about half an hour longer, and it is ready to bottle for use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annatto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: color; pigment; pink
