[MR] FW: *WH* Mystery spice

[Irmgart]

The concensus on sca-cooks (which I don't know if Charles has been apprised 
of) is that it's some type of cardamom. Which, just on looking at it, I can 
believe. Smelling and tasting would be a better gauge, though...

-Irmgart

On 9/5/05, Rebecca Wendelken <rwendelken at methodist.edu> wrote:
> 
> Break one open. What does the inside look like? My first guess was dried 
> Persian limes.
> 
> Fu'il
> 
> >>> "David Wendelken" <davewendelken at earthlink.net> 09/02/05 9:56 AM >>>
> 
> here's a mystery for you...
> 
> xxxooo!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-keep at windmastershill.org [mailto:
> owner-keep at windmastershill.org]
> On Behalf Of C. Brian Towey
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:46 AM
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org; keep at windmastershill.org
> Subject: *WH* Mystery spice
> 
> 
> 
> There I was at Pennsic, and.
> 
> 
> 
> Along came a wandering merchant with a broad basket full of all kinds of
> spices. He had one spice I didn't recognize, and said it was used in North
> African and sometimes French cooking. I bought a small bag of lumpy brown
> seed pods, each about the size of a whole nutmeg. They don't weigh much, 
> so
> I suppose they are mostly hollow.
> 
> 
> 
> There's just one problem. He told me the name of this spice, but by the
> time I got home, I'd forgotten it. Without a name, I can't guess what to
> cook with it.
> 
> 
> 
> I feel a bit as though I had traded a cow for some magic beans.
> 
> 
> 
> Can any of you guess what spice this might be?
> 
> 
> 
> Sheepishly,
> 
> 
> 
> Charles Fleming
> 
> 
> 
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