Cooking With Lavender Before It Starts Tasting Soapy
Culinary lavender tastes floral, lightly citrusy, and herbal when you choose food-grade English lavender and use it…
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The Spices That Turn Soapy at a Normal Quantity
Floral spices are the ones that turn soapy or medicinal the moment you use a normal quantity of them. These three profiles, saffron, cardamom, and lavender, give the dose in threads, pods, and pinches rather than spoons, and say what to do when a dish has already tipped over.
Origin, flavour compounds, and substitution ratios, taken from food science rather than from packaging copy.
In This Collection
In this collection 3 profiles
How Do You Cook With Juniper Berries Without Bitterness?
Juniper berries give gin its defining piney aroma, but food needs a much smaller dose. Start with a few lightly crushed…
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What Do Fennel Seeds Taste Like, and How Do You Use Them?
Fennel seeds bring sweet anise aroma, citrus, and a faint green bitterness to pork, fish, bread, vegetables, and spice…
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