SC - Poppa's mustard (recipe #1 - Platina red)

[Jenne Heise]

I have a whole 2'x14" shelf in my pantry for them. Not fancy, but I took some
2x4s and stacked them in to make steps so that you can see the different bottle
in 1 half, and i have spices in commercial size [tone-loc] that i just line up.
I dont particularly sort them in any particular fashion, though I tend to keep
the different forms of capsicums nest to each other[paprika, 3 kinds, flaked
ground or whole peppers, 7 kinds, chili powder, 2 kinds] and my blends sort of
corralled in one corner.

Back when I got my first apartment, just to drive my roommate nuts and keep her
from using my stuff i had been given a spice rack with 24 differents
spices/herbs and spent the better part of a weekend soaking off the lables and
using a paint marker to write the names of all the spices in latin on the
bottles, and then alpabetized themby the modern names. Drove her wild[WEG] and
made me learn the latin terms for them all. I think I might still have one or 2
of the bottles left after 20 years tucked away in a box in the barn.
margali


> My several spice racks on the wall are now stuffed and the rest of my
> spices/herbs have overflowed to several shelves and a plastic bin I'm
> not sure where I can put more spice racks. My cabinets are too narrow for
> the commercial racks. How do you all organise your spices?
>
> On the shelf, I find I can't easily tell what the spices are in the
> back. And with things in three or four different areas, not organised
> in any way, I spend a lot of time searching. Do you all alphabetize
> or otherwise sort your spices/herbs?
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