[Sca-cooks] Cinnamon

[DragonTamer]

Ok, so I've been looking at recipes till my eyes cross (and reading in some
of the original texts also--hey that useless class in early British Lit came
in handy after all, LOL) and a vast number of recipes call for cinnamon.
Now, I have fondness for breathing. (Imagine that!) Cinnamon interferes with
particular addiction, LOL! Being allergic to cinnamon means I can't have my
favorite mundane foods, nevermind period foods. At the investiture of our
new Baron & Baroness, I couldn't eat a significant portion of the feast (but
my lord husband assured me it was wonderful, but definitely to laden with
the offending spice for me to eat.) There was plenty for me to eat, as her
Excellency can verify! Is there a reason so much cinnamon was used? Is there
a substitute spice that could be used?

Amanda Blackwolf