SC - Kissing Comfits or Muscadines.
Jenne Heise
jenne at tulgey.browser.net
Tue Jul 18 11:53:08 PDT 2000
> OK. It's time for the obligatory "dumb question". I have run across several
> recipes that call for ambergris, musk, gum arabic and/or orris root. Where does
> one acquire such ingredients (please remember...I live 'way out in the "boonies"
> in Southern Maryland. Getting our own Mongolian Barbeque place was a MAJOR
> event!)?
Well, orris root, gum arabic, etc. can be mail-ordered (or web-ordered). I
buy a lot from Penn herb (www.pennherb.com) because they can ship fast,
though I'm not very enthused with their products and service; Nichols
Garden Nursery has orrisroot (www.nicholsgardennursery.com); synthetic
musk and ambergris oils are available too.
> And, particularly with the ambergris and musk...is it safe to use these in
> foods? I had been told that they were used exclusively in perfume-type
> applications and were unsafe in food.
Well, I'm concerned about that myself. Period ambergris and musk, being
the products of non-poisonous animals, were probably reasonably safe to
ingest. However, I don't think you can get those now; everything I've seen
is synthetic (which is good: I don't want to kill a deer to get musk).
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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