SC - no cheddar...

[Marisa Herzog]

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Ron and Laurene Wells wrote:

> THREE Dollars?  For a hole gram?  Not here!!!  I priced it a month or so
> ago.  ou get a TINY paper pouch (tucked inside a glass tube) that (shoot,
> can't remember the exact weight) was about 1/8th of an ounce (how much does
> a gram compare to an ounce?) for the bargain price of $16.  (Sixteen

1 oz=28g (close enough). 

0.125 oz = 3.5 g

$16/3.5 g = $4.52/g

Either your saffron is better quality than (Ras?), or the price was not 
as good as he gets.

Here in Sweden I pay app $1/0.5g (i.e. $2/g). But then saffron is used
quite a bit in Swedish baking (at least seasonally: saffron buns for St.
Lucia (Dec. 13), etc), which might affect the price. This is a regular
supermarket, not a special store (they all carry it in 0.5 g foil
envelopes). 

Anyone who can give us a brief lecture on the types of saffron? 

When baking buns I generally use 0.5--1g per pint of liquid.

/UlfR

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