[Sca-cooks] Re: Curry spices & rancid meat

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>     With the exception of salt (and maybe sugar???)  neither of which are
> spices the way other spices and herbs are;  how would a spice act to
> preserve food?  Spices add flavour, colour,  sometimes make your mouth
> and face hot, and often make your mouth water (which starts digestion???)
> but none of these things help with preservation.

Many spices have _some_ antibacterial effect (cloves, for instance).
It's not, in our terms, terribly useful because the effect is not strong.
But that's why they are used in preservation.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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