[Sca-cooks] How Many Cardamom Pods in a Tablespoon?

[Mairi Ceilidh]

Three teaspoons is a tab tablespoon.  As best as I can tell there should be
about 24 or so whole pods in a tablespoon (yes, I counted, but the pods are
not uniform size).  If you ground the 24 pods you would get 4 or so
teaspoons of ground cardamom.  I think I would back off a bit and use three
teaspoons of ground.  It is going to infuse much stronger as a ground spice
than as a whole spice.  Of course, you also have to factor in how old your
spice is.  The longer it has sat ground in a bottle the more the flavour
will have faded.

My suggestion?  Go with your best guess ;-)

Mairi Ceilidh

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Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 12:26 PM
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] How Many Cardamom Pods in a Tablespoon?

Hi Folks!

I've got a recipe that calls for a tablespoon of cardamom pods but I can't
find any. Ok, I didn't look too hard because I do have ground cardamom and
know I can use it in stead. I even know that 6 pods equals 1 tsp of ground.

Problem is, as I say above, the recipe calls for a tbsp of pods and not a
specific number of pods.

I've done a giggle search and all get is confirmation that "6 pods equals 1
tsp ground. . . "

Can anyone help? Even if it is to check empirically for me?

Thanks for any assistance!

Maredudd
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