[Sca-cooks] Bergamot (was Quail Eggs, etc)

[Diamond Randall]

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>Ever had Earl Grey tea? The better ones use real bergamot, cheap ones
>susbstitue lavender. They taste the same to me. I can't have either one,
>which is odd, becasue they aren't related- lavender is, well, lavender.
>Bergamot is a citrus plant. Gotta wonder if they have some compound in
common.

Bergamot is a citrus plant???  I thought it was an herb commonly called bee
balm.
I grow it and it seems to be more related to mints and catmints.  Perhaps you
are thinking of the many kinds of citrus flavoured mints?

Akim