[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 1 11:06:29 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
[that the small black seeds were galangal]
>
>Jana
Clearly it is impossible that they were galangal. But there are a
number of things they could actually have been...
Maggie MacDonald wrote:
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
Well, from this list they could have been:
-pepper (but i assume you know what pepper looks like)
- cubebs (rough and round with a skinny tail)
- mustard seed (smooth and round and very small)
- juniper berries (rough and round, but perhaps too big)
- cardamom (if the seeds were outside of the pods - not round - kind of oblong)
Here are some photos from *the best* source of spice info on the web,
Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages:
Galangal:
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Alpi_gal.html
As you can see, it is not nor does it produce black seeds.
Now that *that* is out of the way, let's look at actual possible
little black seeds:
Cardamom -
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Elet_car.html
Cubeb -
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Pipe_cub.html
Juniper -
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Juni_com.html
Black Mustard -
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Bras_nig.html
And...
here's what nigella looks like, although apparently it was not among
the spices at Potrero:
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Nige_sat.html
--
Yours in better Spice knowledge
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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