[MR] Mystery Spice

[Teufelskerl001 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/25/2005 2:16:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cbt at ib-ent.com writes:

Many  thanks to all those who sniffed, fondled, tasted, and otherwise
inspected  my Mystery Spice at Cattle Raids yesterday.  Unfortunately,  the
identity of these seed pods is still a mystery.  Everyone agreed  that it is
no kind of cardamom.  A couple of folks thought it smelled  like Fenugreek.
But, I checked, and Fenugreek doesn't make seed pods like  this.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Charles  Fleming


Milord, there is one last chance for you, but it may not be an easy  solution.
 
There is a website, _http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/index.html_ 
(http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/index.html)  run  by Gernot 
Katzer, which is perhaps the definitive page on spices of all  kind.  Not only does 
he give you the application of the spice, but he has  large amounts of photos 
showing the plant, leaves, berries, etc, of the plant  the spice comes from, 
as well as where the plant can be found, it's latin name,  etc., etc.
 
This will takes some work on your part to match up photos with spice, but  
it's the only solution that comes to mind.
 
YIS,
 
Lord Frederich Von Teufel