Dave Smith wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>
>>
>> It makes it so much more economical when you need a little bit of an
>> esoteric spice that you don't ordinarily use.
>
> Not just those, but all the staples too. I went to the Bulk Barn
> yesterday and got a bottle of Madagascar vanilla ($8.99.... ouch) a
> pound of dried apricots, 2 lbs of dates, enough black pepper corns to
> keep me going for at least a year, enough ground cinnamon to fill a
> large jar, enough Marjoram to fill a spice jar, all for just over $22.
> If I had bought the pepper, cinnamon and marjoram in small bottles at
> the grocery stores they would have added up to more than $15.
>
Vanilla is one thing I buy in Mexico. Mexican vanilla is a whole nuther
thing. I like to put a few drops of it in a sauce pan with some water
and a stick of cannela (Mexican cinnamon) and let it boil. Makes the
house smell wonderful.

> FWIW.... one time I was at the local grocery store bought enough
> marjoram to fill my original spice jar. It was so light that it would
> not register on the checkout scale so the cashier did not charge me. It
> would have bee $4-5 to buy a bottle of the stuff.


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Janet Wilder
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