Best Herbs And Spices

In addition to sweet uses (such as in tea and for baking), think about ways you could use infused honey to glaze meats or vegetables, or as ingredients for marinades. As with all foods involving honey, it should not be given to infants, as sometimes honey...

Imagine my surprise a few years back to discover that the cinnamon I'd been sprinkling on toast and cookies for years wasn't the real deal! Both cinnamons are derived from tree bark, but "true cinnamon" or Ceylon Cinnamon is a different species than the...

Even if you do not do the surface sterilization, the cinnamon powder can still work magic.However, for our purposes as gardeners, our concern is that cinnamon can help in our struggle to keep our prized plants from being preyed upon by fungi and bacteria,...

You can roll confections in sesame seeds for a nutty taste and delightful presentation. We have had fresh baked bread garnished with sesame seeds, and tasted tahini (sometimes called the butter of the Middle East), a ground toasted sesame seed paste used...

It provides berries for some birds, and there is no serious disease or insect problems with it. The pioneer women kept spice twigs in kitchens, they called them spicesticks and dropped them in soups and stews as they cooked.It is a fast growing shrub,...

Scented sugar is a simple way to dress up any occasion, and jars with the flavoring agents still in them make quite attractive gifts. To make your own scented sugar, you need a clean glass jar.As there will be no heat processing later, I prefer to sanitize...

I really didn't understand that they needed heat or liquid to create the subtle scent, all I knew was that they should make my clothes smell good, so I dumped the entire cup of spices in my socks and undies drawers.

I'd love my house to smell of cinnamon all winter long!In addition to using it in all sorts of recipes, I've burned cinnamon candles, put cinnamon sticks in humidity water pots on the radiator, added a few chips of cinnamon to my coffee pot filter, and...

Turmeric paste is applied to the bodies of the bride and groom before marriage in some Far Eastern countries to give glow to the skin and to keep harmful bacteria away from the body.

In hot climates,and quickly forms seed. Plant dill seed after the last frost in your area and lightly cover the seed with soil. Once the plants begin to grow, they require little care.

Louis Pasteur and Albert Schweizer both demonstrated that garlic could kill infectious germs. I know from personal experience that the Four Thieves recipe I use makes a fine insect repellent, and I make a new batch every spring to use on me and my pets.is...

Ginger root, or ginger, as we know it today was not readily available in the local grocery. We had a wonderful time as close cousins will do, and before I left one of the sisters gave me a package wrapped and tied in a bow, with strict instructions to...

In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar. Wash, sort for size, and cover similar sizes with boiling water and cook until tender.Cool beets. Heat the pan until hot and then spoon out 1/4 cup batter per pancake.

Cinnamon is the brown bark of the cinnamon tree, which when dried, rolls into a tubular form known as a quill. Serve the apples with pork.6 ounces block-style fat-free cream cheese, softened (about 3/4 cup)Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar, margarine, vanilla, and...

This is the first of a series of articles about different spices from around the globe. The Dutch waged a bloody war, including the massacre and enslavement of the inhabitants of the island of Banda, Indonesia just to control nutmeg production in the...

They bloom singly or in pairs along the branches and are followed by brown, hairy seedpods about 2 or 3 inches long.I always wanted to pick branches of it to place in the mason fruit jars that my mom had given me to use as vases.

I never like to stake anything except gladiolias, so recently I have been simply cutting my tansy back- about the middle of August. It never minds the weather, coldest temperatures don't faze it.

I was never allowed to taste it, but he surely did make our house smell nearly as bad as did Aunt Bett's. The wild cherry, or chokeberry, is a gorgeous little tree. I also called it the chokeberry tree.

Special thanks to the photographers for making their images available!Spiral Garden thumbnail at start of article: amberdc, via Flickr Creative Commons. I have a specific "herb garden" area where my perennial herbs are planted, along with individual specimens...

Parts of the plant are mentioned byas a diuretic, an antiseptic, soothing to the digestive sym, useful for colic, and as a hallucinogenic! Queen Anne's Lace was a valuable enough medicinal herb that colonists relin the 48 continental United States, and...

Why laurel leaves? Mix salt, herbs, and pepper in small bowl and sprinkle over potatoes. On its own like this, it's hard to believe anyone ever thought to put bay leaves in their cooking.

Transfer to a spice grinder or coffee mill along with nutmeg and mace and grind to a fine powder. What makes this one seasoning nearly as universal as salt? Maybe the whole seed you buy at the grocery store is even viable! In fact, I may give that a tryknew...

This works as long as you are careful to get the leaves completely dry before storage.However, many of the flavors of fresh herbs can be lost in the drying process, especially under home conditions.I prefer to freeze herbs, adding oil to protect their...

At one time, American Indians prepared emetics and strong laxatives from the bark; but since the tree contains mildy toxic substances, it was never used very extensively as a medicine.

Who wants to wander to the end of the acre to go snip herbs in 20-degree weather while the pots are boiling over? This is the year for growing more edibles and fewer ornamentals. That is what appears again and again in articles: Plant the herbs close...

Many herbs hail from the Mediterranean and, as such, are sun lovers. Let's learn more about plants for Turkish gardens.Turkish food is delicious and, for the most part, healthy. Some of familiar herbs and flavorings to include would be:freestar.queue.push(function()...

We found it growing in dappled sunlight alongside the stream that flowed down from the mountains. These were concepts that the older cultures understood, and it was easy for them to adapt new beliefs into their own.