SC - Steamed Pudding Recipes - 2nd installment

[Elaine Koogler]

I've blended my own quatre-epices and it's delightful.  It would never have
occurred to me to use allspice!  I did note, however, in my recent storm of
catalogues, that Dean and Delucca (I think) had listed among their available
spices, quatre epices!
As they also listed allspice, I have to believe that this is the blend.

Kiri

Adamantius wrote:

> To add to the confusion, some French cooks refer to allspice as
> quatre-epice, regardless of the fact that they also use an actual blend
> of four spices (pepper, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon) for a largely
> similar purpose.
>