SC - spices

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hi all from Anne-Marie
Telling cardamom seeds from grains of paradise...
not only do they taste different (grains are more gingery/peppery than the
flowery sweet cardomom, to my palate), but they look vastly different.
Cardamom seeds are seed shaped. Grains are nubbly bits, like crushed
peppercorns. Also, when you crush a grain, there's a fluffy white stuff
inside the seed that isnt' there with cardamom.

you could always order some grains from Worldspice and compare with what
you have, too :)...if you lived close by me, I could just bring you a
couple.

- --AM

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> From: CorwynWdwd <CorwynWdwd at aol.com>
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: SC - spices
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 2:21 AM
> 
> > I'll admit grains look a little like desiccated
> >  Cardomon seeds, but  the taste is not the same.
> 
> Okay, okay, they're not EXACTLY like cardomon, but the ones in my kitchen
> right now taste like in intense (as in dried) cardomon. :-)
> 
> Of course, wnen I've been out to buy black mustard seeds (and called
first)
> I've been offered brown when I got there (and there most assuridly IS a
> difference). Maybe I got shafted again?
> 
> Corwyn.
>
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