[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest
Maggie MacDonald
maggie5 at cox.net
Thu Jun 1 06:52:48 PDT 2006
At 01:22 AM 6/1/2006,Bj Jane Tremaine said something like:
>This is what was told to us by the people who ran the contest.
>
>Jana
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>
>
> > Bj Jane Tremaine wrote:
> > > The small black spice seed was galangal and we also had a compot of
>root
> > > vegtables in cider.
> >
> > I wasn't there so i don't know what the black seeds were (wild guess,
> > nigella), but there is not a doubt in the world that they were NOT
> > galangal.
> >
> > Galangal is a rhizome closely related to ginger. It looks a lot like
> > ginger, but the "fingers" are more cylindrical and the whole rhizome
> > is much harder. Not a seed at all. In fact, the plant does not make
> > seeds. It is propagated by breaking up the hands and planting the
> > fingers.
> > --
> > Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
> > the persona formerly known as Anahita
The organizer of the contest sent me the list of what spices were included:
>And here's the spices they were given:
>· Salt (kosher/sea salt)
>· Pepper
>· Cubebs
>· Mustard
>· Juniper berries
>· Caraway Seed
>· Cardamom
>· Nutmeg
>· Mace
>· Cloves
>· Cinnamon
>· Galingale
>· Saffron
Baron David is rather familiar with his spices, so maybe those were the
mustard seeds? I've used the dark mustard seeds many times at the local
feasts, and theres 2-3 different colors available without going to any
"exotic" sources.
cheers,
Maggie MacD.
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