SC - Cassia bark vs Cinnamon

[Micaylah]

At 06:18 PM 1/22/99 EST, ras described...
<snip>
>With the sticks it is easy to tell which is which. simply apply the
>description that I sent in the previous post. Thck and hard=cassia. paper
thin
>and very brittle=true cinnamon. Like many things once you have seen both
>types, there is little chance you will mistake one for the other. There are
>also a couple of different nice spice merchants on this list who would be
more
>than happy to provide you with whichever type you need. :-) I personally
stock
>up from the Pepperer's Guild at Pennsic. :-)

Yes. Further to this, Cassia tends to be round, whole  and smooth (like a
twig) and cinnamon bark is almost papery and well, like bark and comes
generally in pieces.

Micaylah



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