“The World’s Costliest Spice – Saffron”
Susanna Reppert www.theRosemaryHouse.com
Previously published inwards The Essential Herbal Magazine
Previously published inwards The Essential Herbal Magazine
Almost all cultures bring included Saffron inwards their cuisine. From the ancient Phoenicians to the Pennsylvania Dutch, saffron has ever been the close costly together with desirable of the seasonings. Spanish paella or arroz con pollo, the fisherman’s bouillabaisse, Swedish saffron buns, Indian curries, African couscous, Italian rissoto, chicken potpie together with gravies, fish sauces together with coloring for butter together with cheeses are merely a few of its uses inwards international cookery.
Commercially cultivated inwards Span, saffron tin live on grown inwards all temperate climates. It is a autumn blooming crocus (Crocus sativus) which is planted inwards bound or summertime to bloom adjacent fall. The harvest is the picayune orangish stigmas, iii per flower, which accounts for its costliness. More than 200,000 stigmas brand a pound of saffron , all laboriously picked past times hand.
Once the herb of exclusively wealthy, thrifty Pennsylvania Dutch ensure their render of this distinctive seasoning past times growing their own. Saffron is easily grown inwards whatever sunny good drained garden where it enjoys an occasional feeding of bonemeal together with compost together with shortly forms a colony of picayune productive bulbs.
Plant the corms 2 inches apart together with iii to v inches deep inwards average good drained seat down but – a give-and-take to the wise – score the spot! The bulbs are dormant close of the fourth dimension together with vulnerable to over planting or inadvertent weeding. When the pocket-size lavander crocus similar flowers look (they opened upwards exclusively inwards sun) harvest the orangish stigmas, air dry out them on a canvas of white newspaper together with and therefore shop your precious saffron inwards a tightly lidded nighttime drinking glass bottle.
Used inwards Biblical times equally seasoning, medicine together with dye, inwards ancient Rome, Hellenic Republic together with the Orient Saffron was likewise a perfume. Aromatic, hot together with pungent to the taste, today it colors cakes, together with confections golden yellowish or adds distinctive flavor to exotic dishes. The Arabs believed that saffron kept inwards the solid would sweat away dreaded lizards. In the middle ages, adulterers of saffron where beheaded for their crime. It has been written that Henry VIII therefore craved saffron that he forebade the ladies of his courtroom to purpose the rare spice to dye their golden hair. The Song of Solomon provides a lyrical reference”…an orchard of pomegranates, amongst pleasant fruits: camphour, amongst spikenard, spikenard together with saffron, calamus together with cinnamon, amongst all trees of frankincense, myrrh together with aloes. With all the principal spices: … Awake, O due north wind: together with come, thou South: blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may menses out.”
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