[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest

Bj Jane Tremaine vikinglord at cox.net
Fri Jun 2 00:03:52 PDT 2006


Ok we are talking about the cubebs,  I for the Caraway andcardamon.

Jana
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest


> 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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