[Sca-cooks] substitutes for: garlic, cinnamon

[Claire Clarke]

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:18:15 -0400
From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] substitutes for:  garlic, cinnamon
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I searched this. For garlic maybe certain websites suggest
Asafoetida.
Bouquet: a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur. The smell  
dissipates with cooking.
Flavour: on its own, extremely unpleasant, like concentrated rotten  
garlic. When cooked, it adds an onion-like flavour.
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/asafetid.html

Johnnae

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So if a recipe calls for asafoetida and you can't get it, could garlic be
substituted, in the lists humble opinion?

Angharad