[Sca-cooks] Aloeswood substitution

[yaini0625 at yahoo.com]

Is Aloeswood a bush, tree, berry or mold?
What is it?
Aelina the Confused

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From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Aloeswood substitution

>>I've been looking up aloeswood and find that it's a resin from an 
>>evergreen. Does anyone have suggestions for substitutions? My initial 
>>though is juniper berries or gin.
>
> Mastic perhaps? I sometimes describe the flavor as dehydrated turpentine.
>
> Is this from a recipe? What cuisine?
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc

Mastic probably won't do.  Aloeswood is a member of genus Aquilaria that has 
been infected by a parasitic mold, Phaeoacremonium parasitica.  The resin is 
produced to counter the parasite.

Bear 


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