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Return to the slow cooker; stir in cheese. Whether or not these claims are true, one thing is certain, you'll love this tea.Add the bay leaves and water to a pot, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat.

Cumin was traded and grown in other places beyond the Mediterranean basin; as an annual, its seeds need only have been saved and harvestedCurrently most Cumin is imported from India.

Other types of moss can be added to potpourri for texture and bulk.Sandalwood Chips - This is the chopped wood of a hemiparasitic tree native to India, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Imagine turkey and stuffing minus the fragrance of sage, thyme, rosemary and marjoram. Modern scientific research has confirmed the long-held belief in ginger's ability to soothe gastrointestinal distress.

If you leave the stigmas attached to each other, moisture can be trapped inside the stigma. (Mordants include tannic acid, alum, chrome alum, sodium chloride, and certain salts of aluminum, chromium, copper, iron, iodine, potassium, sodium, and tin.”Mix...

Properly tended cinnamon trees are a long-lived resource and a good source of income for their growers, although stripping and drying the bark is labor-intensive.Cinnamons can be purchased in several forms.

If you guessed "cinnamon", you're right! Hot cinnamon rolls are great for breakfast and cinnamon powder is amazingly effective for stopping rot in stored tubers, rhizomes or corms.

You can roll confections in sesame seeds for a nutty taste and delightful presentation. Sesame oil added to a dish at the very end of cooking addsa zest to stir-fries and a splash is delicious on a salad, giving it an oriental flavor.

Bake a pie; even if you use a pre-made crust and filling from aPICTURE OF NUTMEG WITH MACE MADE AVAILABLE BY WIKIMEDIA BY Brocken Inaglory. Grate your own Nutmeg (they even sell Nutmeg in a little grater now), use whole Cloves and whole Cinnamon.

Cinnamon in particular is useful as an antifungal agent, and is a primary ingredient in many traditional mulling spice recipes.Creating a mixture of mulling spices can be a highly individualized exercise.

Thinner skinned peppers are best for drying. Nutrition Analysis calculated by Diana Wind.Some Like It Hotter! Making Caribbean Style Hot Sauce from Heaps of HabanerosSome Like It Hot! Making Hot Sauce from Homegrown Chile Peppers

But it is such a simple process to scent sucrose, why not add a personal touch-while saving some cash and make your own? To make your own scented sugar, you need a clean glass jar.As there will be no heat processing later, I prefer to sanitize my jars...

Crocus sativus bloom courtesy of KENPEI taken in Osaka-fu, Japan, Wikipedia GNU Free Documentation License. Grow your own saffron crocus in your kitchen garden. Commercially, saffron is used to dye textiles and finds applications in manufacture of incense,...

I thought it would be nice to have those scents around all the time. The pungent smell of clove also lends itself to soaps, lotions, and toothpastes. The Indonesians consume more than half the world's clove supply; they mix the spice with tobacco to make...

Whether you sprinkle it on oatmeal or Christmas cookies, or whether you enjoy its aroma in potpourri and scented candles, there's a spicy warmth to cinnamon that makes you feel comforted down to your toes.

Molasses to me is a natural partner to anything containg ginger. Molasses started out as a low-cost left-over from the production of white sugar, although currently it is a delicious ingredient in its own right.

Folks start grilling at an early hour, so we will pass by and buy our chicken on the way back so it will still be warm for lunch. In case you forgot (it often happens when you are on holiday!) today is Saturday and you will be reminded by the smell of...

Ground nutmeg is also smoked in India. Much ado about nothing, perhaps. It is good to know that ground nutmeg in our dishes is not likely to hurt us, but will only enhance what we already enjoy eating or drinking.I guess there is always a downside to...

I had neither, so I improvised and used a small glass bowl with a flat bottom and a tall shot glass, also with a flat bottom. One source stated that "cardamom can only be grown indoors in this country" and "won't survive outdoors even in summer.

Use 2 to 3 tablespoons of herbs per pint jar, or more if you want a truly intense flavor.If you decide to heat process your honey, it may destroy a lot of the honey's health-enhancing properties.

It's culinary uses are many. It was surprising to me when I tried to climb the ladder to clean the debris from my gutters to find that the ladder was no longer as stable as it once was.

Columbus actually stumbled across the Americas by accident, when they got in his way as he was seeking a new spice route to the East Indies! It wasn't until after Cortez invaded Mexico, however, that Europe "discovered" vanilla and chocolate.

Nobody gave me a script for growing up. Of course there was also my mother to contend with: "Don't you touch those pokeberries! You'll get that red juice all over you!" But she never said a word about the walnut stains that were left on my hands for months...

She said they also used it to promote sweating when a person had a fever. The lowest area between two mountains might be called a canyon in some places, but in Southeast Kentucky where I grew up it was called a hollow (pronounced holler by those who make...

White House Chef Cristeta Commerford recently shared her seasonal recipe for Roasted Pumpkin Squash Soup with Pepitas and Greek Yogurt with the public. You can also find Espelette pepper powder in gourmet food stores and online.

Cool completely before serving. Do you ever find yourself reaching for a salty snack, but cringe that eating the bag of potato chips in the cabinet will cause you to renege on your new year's resolutions?

Spiced Tomato Jam Note: I'm not going to provide full “How to Make Jam” instructions here, but the Ball Company site www.freshpreserving.com is quite clear. Mix the remaining ingredients except the sugar into the prepared and measured tomatoes along...