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Ah Cinnamon, what a wonderful spice, taken from the dried bark of the tree of the Laurel family. Originally from Sri Lanka, it is now grown in India, Indonesia, the west indies and Indian Ocean islands. it comes in four forms, quills, quillings, ground and essential oils. Archived News
March 2004
Such a wonderful spice, it can be added to both sweet and savoury dishes (see later). It comes in five forms, quills, quillings, buds, ground and essential oils. Don't get this confused with the bark of the Cassia, which although is part of the laurel family is usually called Chinese Cinnamon. Cassia is interchangeable with cinnamon in many countries including USA, so some of the products for sale on this site might be made of Cassia, but there is no way of knowing, maybe we should have a site EverythingCassia, but I don't think we'll bother. The cinnamon tree is an evergreen which grows to 10m(33ft) in the wild. When it is cultivated it is generally cropped to ease harvesting. It likes sandy soil and thrives in a tropical maritime climate at low altitude. It has shiny leaves with yellowish white flowers and dark blue berries. Harvesting (twice a year) is carried out in the rainy seasons between May and June and October and November. The first harvest yields a thick inferior bark. The quality improves with successive cropping and the finest bark comes from the thin shoots at the centre of the plant. Quills are assembled then dried in the shade as direct sunlight warps them. |
Cinnamon 'HOT' News for August 2008So What Happened to Hot news for May, June & July, I hear you ask, well there-by hangs a tale, we have been very busy doing non-cinnamon things. so in the non-cinnamon news - Ages ago we set up a spoof Pet passport photo site, just for a bit of fun, we imagined what would happen if the UK government imposed the same rules for cat, dog and ferret pictures that they applied to people images. We basically took the micky out of the rules, have a look if you want, it might raise a laugh, it's at www.petpassportphotos.co.uk. Now the news is not that we set up that site, nor the lack of people who visited it, but the fact that it was hacked by a pro-islamic terroist group, who were stupid enough to think it was an actual UK government site and thought there were getting one over on HMS! hahaha So any news for this month - Well no actually, but we do have some old favourites returning again.
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