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Spices and Ingredients: Horseradish

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Horseradish is a perennial plant of the Brassicaceae family, which includes mustard and cabbages. The plant is probably native to southeastern Europe and western Asia, but is popular around the world today. It grows up to 1.5 metres (five feet) tall and is mainly cultivated for its large white, tapering root, although the leaves are also edible. Horseradish contains potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus, as well as volatile oi...

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Jewish Recipes: Tahini - Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. In Turkey, Tahini mixed with Pekmez is common as a breakfast item, especially in winters. Tahini (or tehina in Hebrew, tahin in Turkish). Kosher Food for Body and Soul. Sept 2005 - Jan 2008.

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Spices and Ingredients: Ajwain  is an uncommon spice except in certain areas of Asia.

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Ajwain (also known as Carom, Ajowan, Bishop's Weed and Seeds Of Bishop's Weed), is an uncommon spice except in certain areas of Asia. It is the small seed-like fruit of the Bishop's Weed plant, (Trachyspermum ammi syn. Carum copticum), egg-shaped and grayish in colour. The plant has a similarity to parsley. Ajwain is often confused with lovage seed; even some dictionaries mistakenly state that ajwain comes from the lovage plant.

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Jewish Recipes: Amchur / Mango - Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Amchur: Dried unripe mango used as a spice in south and southeast Asia is known as amchur (sometimes spelled amchoor). The mango is a genus of about 35 species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae, native to India and Indo-China, of which the Indian Mango M. indica is by far the most important commercially. Another way to eat a mango is to simply use a sharp knife to peel the skin completely. The...

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Jewish Recipes: Garlic - Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Garlic is a bulbous perennial food plant of the family Alliaceae. The word comes to us from Old English gārlēac, meaning spear leek. When eaten in quantity, garlic may be strongly evident in the diner's sweat the following day. The well-known phenomenon of garlic breath can be alleviated by eating fresh parsley and this is included in many garlic recipes. Because of its strong odor, garlic is sometimes called the stinking rose.

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Jewish Recipes: Asafoetida - Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. It has certain medicinal uses: it aids the digestion, and is helpful in cases of asthma and bronchitis. In the Appalachian region of the United States, it was used as a folk remedy for children's colds: it is mixed into a foul-smelling paste and hung in a bag around the afflicted child's neck. Kosher Food for Body and Soul. Sept 2005 - Jan 2008.

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Jewish Recipes: Caperberries - Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Capers are flower buds of a shrub which is native to eastern Asia but widespread in hot regions, and caperberries are their fruit. Capers are used as a condiment, either pickled in vinegar or preserved in brine. The Romans used them to season fish sauces. Capers are also used to flavor rice and meatballs and garnish pizzas; they go well with mustard and horseradish. Kosher Food for Body and Soul. Sept 2005 - Jan 2008.

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Spices and Ingredients: Anise is an herb in the family Apiaceae whose seed-like is used in sweet baking as well as in anise-flavored liqueurs.

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. All above-ground parts of the young anise plant are also eaten as a vegetable. The stems resemble those of celery in texture and are much milder in flavor than the fruits. Anise is believed to be a galactagogue, or a substance that increases lactation. Anisette, is very easy to make. It resembles the flavor of black licorice and is quit good in mixed drinks. 157 oz. (466 ml.) 100 proof Vodka (non-flavored). 7 drops anise oil. Add alc...

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Spices: Black Pepper

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What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Dried, ground pepper is one of the most common spices in European cuisine and its descendants, having been known and prized since antiquity for both its flavor and its use as a medicine. The spiciness of black pepper is due to the chemical piperine. Ground black peppercorn, usually referred to simply as pepper, may be found on nearly every dinner table in some parts of the world, often alongside table salt. Matzah Ball Salt and Pepper Shakers. Peppercorns are...

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Jewish Recipes: Spices and Ingredients

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Jewish and Kosher Spices. What is a hechsher? Add us to your favorites. Kolanji, Black caraway). Though some consider these. A fruit, not a spice). A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or resin substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavoring. Spices are further distinguished from herbs, referring to leafy, green plant parts used for flavouring purposes. Spices were the primary reason that Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama sailed to India&#46...