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I went shopping today. My local market greatly expanded their Asian foodstuffs. Among their newer products are the ones pictured.

-Boofer-

Boofer,

Are you going to make your own annatto colouring with that find? If so could you let me know how you might go about it?
Annatto seeds are one thing I can get locally!

I'm thinking it's worth a try. I'm not sure what the color strength would be. I think each of those packages cost about $.78 which makes it really reasonable (unless the color saturation is below expectations).

To start, my intent is to take a measure of the powder combined with a measure of distilled water and boil the two for a period of time to meld the two and to sterilize the mixture. Then I would strain it and put it into a small container for use.

The coloring is on the surface of the seeds, so there's no need to crush the seeds. For them I would follow a course similar to this, using distilled water.

-Boofer-