[Sca-cooks] Articles was Fine Spice Powder for Tarts?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Katharina wrote:
>I do love spices and have a whole cupboard full of stuff. Some I even have
>no idea what do do with as a friend just wandered in to the Bazaar in Riad
>and bought spices looking strange, nice or otherwise fancy. Or in such amouts
>as I will never ever use up even if coocing for a feast of 100 (e.g. 1kg
>Cardamom!)

What other spices do you have, besides the mass quantities of 
cardamom? I do both medieval and modern Middle Eastern and Southeast 
Asian cooking, so i'm familiar with a fair number of unusual spices.

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