Saffron (was: SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #351)
Par Leijonhufvud
parlei at ki.se
Tue Oct 14 07:33:33 PDT 1997
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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