[Sca-cooks] Mexican Cinnamon = Ceylon Cinnamon??

[Christine Seelye-King]

probably so.  Serene found hers in the Hispanic section of a local grocery
store chain, for something like 59 or 99 cents per packet.
Christianna
mmmm, yummy cinnamon tarts...

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> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Robin Carroll-Mann
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:41 PM
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> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Mexican Cinnamon = Ceylon Cinnamon??
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> I stopped off at a Hispanic grocery store to get some chocolate,
> and while I was there I browsed the spices.  They had packets of
> "Mexican Cinnamon", which looked thin and papery, like the
> Ceylon cinnamon I got from the Pepperers' Guild.  I found a couple
> of websites that assert that the Mexicans use Ceylon cinnamon,
> not cassia.  Is this true?  Have I found a local source for The Good
> Stuff?
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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