Re(2): sca-cooks Cassia and ceylonica

[Sue Wensel]

> At 08:10 PM 4/10/97 -0400, Adamantius wrote:
> >Terry Nutter wrote:
> >
> >>First, while ceylon and cassia are
> >> not precisely the same, they are closely related (they are the only
members
> >> of the genus Cinamomum, being Cinamomum cassia and Cinamomum zeylonica).
> >> And the bark of the two is not all that different.
> >
> >I'm sitting here about four seconds after examining the two; they look
> >quite different to me. Ditto smell and taste.
> 
> Hey, guys, sounds like a perfectly good hands on class to me: Period Spices
> and how they were used---A hands on sampling of various spices. What do you
> say? I haven't perfected smellavision yet, so I can't tell which is which
> from here. And, I can't count the number of times someone has wandered into
> my kitchen and said "What's That?" and I've had to tell them "That's Grains
> of Paradise, and you can do THIS with it..."
> 
> Yes, a class is a good thing. And  Spices are a perfect subject for a
> cooking class at a site where there are no kitchen facilities avaiable for
> the teacher.
> 
> Which of you is volunteering?
> 
> 
> Aoife,  the sneaky, peace-loving cook
> "Many things we need can wait. The child cannot."
> 				---Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet 1889-1957
> 
I had planned on teaching a Period Spices and Their Uses at the upcoming
Aethelmearc War Practice.  I would dearly love advice as this is only the
second class I will have taught (the first being Uses of Herbs in Periods or
They had a plant for everything we use chemicals for).

Derdriu
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