"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:39:27 -0700, <RJ> wrote:
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>> I bought another container of Cardamom locally.
>> Another batch of bread.... same ( sausage? ) results.
>>
>> Am I buying the wrong cardamom?
>> Has my taste/smell gone to hell ?
>> Anyone here bake with cardamom ? Help !!
>
> You associate cardamom to a sausage smell for some reason. Stop
> doing that. Simple enough.
>
> I have a bag of green cardamom here in my desk at work (doesn't
> everybody?) and I just took a whiff of it. I guess some could
> confuse it with the smell of strong fennel, but tastewise it's
> completely different.
>
> -sw



When I was a teen I used to make a pot of tea for my parents in the
evenings. I added green cardamom to the tea pot at my mothers request. I
think it was something she grew up with.

Jill