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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 October 2007First the Bad news, we are over in Florida for the middle two weeks of this month, so if you want any cinnamon goodies, you had better order them before 12:00 noon on Saturday, but every cloud has a silver lining, and we have order over 25 new products, together with any new cinnamon goodies we might find in the shops. We have placed many of these on the EC site already, but you won't get them until Wednesday 24th Oct.but there may be more. We have added the items we have had confirmed by out suppliers and they have been put on the site, but you won't get them until after we get back around the 24th Oct. Now rather than give you a run down of all the new items now, we will wait until we get them into our hands and can flash out the description, ingredients, nutritional fact etc. So just you wait for the November News (which might be a few days early And now we won't be bringing any Pillsbury Grands (Cinnamon Rolls) for sale on the site, sorry, there go in our fridge! And that's about it at the moment Mike - Chief Cinnamon Taster
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