"Dee Randall" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Cardomom can be an expensive spice. It comes in green and bleached white, or black pods. It comes in ground, and I don't know whether the ground is green or black, but green cardomom is the "true" cardomom.
Hah - that's just the outer pod. The others are not "false", just different, like potatoes vs potato chips.
As far as expensive, so what? Why should it be cheap? It's a different substance than cheaper spices. Should a 12 carat diamond be as cheap as a pine cone?
"Denise~*" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Dee Randall said:
Cardomom can be an expensive spice. It comes in green and bleached white,
heh, yeah, bought here it's about $10 to $12, but when I went to Norway, I got a couple bottles for only $ 1.50. I just about died.
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or black pods. It comes in ground, and I don't know whether the ground is green or black, but green cardomom is the "true" cardomom.
Ground comes out sorta dark gray.
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For recipies requiring whole cardamom pods, a generally accepted equivalent is 10 pods equals 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom.
It is used quite a lot in India cooking. Dee Dee
And Norwegian pastries!
Funny how spices are used, heh? DH and I were in Norway and we went to one 'famous' pastry shop and got as many pastries as we could pack in our stomachs in a day; we tried to taste them all. Funny, there is only one pastry I really care a lot about, a cinnamon roll but I can't seem to make it properly or find it. I'm very particular about it - tee hee. Dee Dee
I am not Picky, but Hayabusa, but I would like to get it here, right now, and subito, if you don't mind.
Hi, I'll post the recipe in a new thread in a couple of days (I don't have it in my computer database, so I have to hand type it) . I think you'll consider it worth the wait! The Fins call it Pulla, not sure what the Swedes call it.... but it's basically the same bread. Mine is a loaf, not a coffee braid, though.
Stay tuned!
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