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

[Amanda Blackwolf]

Bergamot IS a citrus plant. What you are growing is Bergamot Mint.  Bergamot
fruits are small, round and greenish (IIRC).

Amanda
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From: "Diamond Randall" <ringofkings at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:26 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bergamot (was Quail Eggs, etc)


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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
>
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