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Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Close Menu Overlay. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Allspice berries are centre front in the tray. It is relatively pungent and used in both sweet and savoury recipes. Mixed spice on the other hand, is a blend of spices, most usually allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger and nutmeg, and sometimes with cassia and coriander seed; it is generally reserved for sweet dishes.
No quantities are specified, as was often the case in old recipes, so cooks either had plenty of agency in their interpretation, or the flavour profile was so well known that there was an accepted taste that cooks would try and recreate. Perhaps the listing order suggests a sliding scale of quantity. Receipts of pastry and cookery [manuscript] : for the use of his scholars, by Ed.
Back in the 15th Century, pepper was a highly regarded and relatively valuable spice. When the Spanish bumped into the Americas, they were so desperate to find rare, sought-after spices, and the poor dears had been at sea for so long, that when showed allspice berries by the natives they thought they were pepper!
Imagine the red faces when ships laden with allspice berries landed in Spain, the traders expecting to see valuable black pepper instead! Pimento also refers to members of the chilli family , another naming by the Spanish explorers when they noticed chillies from the New World were hot like black pepper Piper nigrum. The reason; the flavour is like a combination between cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg all spices.
In reality the flavour is most like a mild, somewhat fruity version of cloves. Having seen huge drifts of plastic in the pristine seas off the Indonesian islands, we know just how important it is to get rid of those shopping bags, plastic wraps and sandwich bags. This is designed as a holiday, not an endurance test, and we have made the itinerary a little more leisurely than some earlier tours, so that you arrive home refreshed and well. Be a part of our small group and join the fun! For those of us separated from our loved ones by insurmountable obstacles, we can be encouraged by improving conditions this year.
Herbie loves being in South India, the food and the people. A world-wide annus horribilis is drawing to a close, and all we want for Christmas is a better year ahead. For many, time spent in confinement has been a time for reflection, communicating with loved ones, and cooking up a storm. In this video, following a short elephant ride, I have the audacity to show my Indian friends at Spice Village how I make my Saturday Curry!
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