A spice

Usage examples of cardamom.

Black cardamom has been variously classified as Zmgiber nigrum, Alpinia allughas, and, sometimes, Amomurn amarum.

She had given him fresh flatbread, cheese and a dish of eggs cooked with cinnamon, cumin, cardamom and fermented barley brine.

The next day, heavy-lidded and ill, Sula declined her breakfast and confined herself to sips of Tassay, a hot milky carbohydrate and protein beverage flavored with cardamom and cloves.

All of the other Zingiberaceae, including dried ginger, turmeric, galangal, and cardamom, are important only as medicine.

The autopsy also showed undigested fragments of cake, with cardamom, anise, and nuts, in the stomach.

It was a kolaicha, made with cardamom seed, just as if it were the Small Holiday itself that was being celebrated.

I remembered the three-cornered zambusi that are made to break the fast during the month of Ramadan and sweet tea with cardamom and milk.

They were grinding natag, a powdery snuff made of cardamom, cloves, tobacco, and the fine ash of burned juniper.

Martins and finches, goatskins and ram skins, dates, filberts, walnuts, salted sturgeon tails, round pepper, ginger, saffron, cloves, nutmegs, spike, cardamoms, scammony, manna, lac, zedoary, incense, quicksilver, copper, amber, pounding pearls, borax, gum arabic, sweetmeats, gold wire, wines, dragon's blood rubies, loaded dice, and beautiful dancing girls.

Sacks were piled in the centre of the floor stuffed with cloves, coriander, cardamoms and cinnamon bark.

At each place there was a printed menu: Smoked whitefish on triangles of spoon bread with mustard broccoli coulis Black bean soup with conchiglie (pasta shells) Roast tenderloin of lamb in a crust of Pine nuts, mushrooms, and cardamom Pur‚e of Hubbard squash and leeks Pear chutney Crusty rolls Spinach and redleaf lettuce with ginger Vinaigrette and garnished with goat cheese Baked apples with peppercorn sauce Mildred said, "The menu is built around local products: lamb, whitefish, beans, squash, goat cheese, pears, and apples.

The Old World reaches down to draw him in: a couple of lascars, their flesh and breath suffused with saffron, asafœtida, and cardamom, lean over the rail, snare his cold pale hands in their warm black ones, and haul him in like a fish.

Forbidden from contacting their parents, having no wish to do so anyway and knowing of no other nearby source of spiciness, they started to make their own, ordering supplies of the rarer raw ingredients - chillis, coriander, cardamom, etc.

In the kitchens dill seed, fennel, pepper, star anise, and cardamom forgot their dried existence as spices.

And so, however much he fidgeted, he had to lead Abivard and Tanshar into the kitchens and do his best to make small talk while they drank wine and munched on pocket bread stuffed with grapes and onions and crumbly white cheese and chunks of mutton sprinkled with ground cardamom seeds.