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Title: CP's UCB
Post by: ritchie on February 24, 2007, 08:02 PM

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still 30 mins of simmering to go.......mmmmmmmmm smells damn good already
quick question. should i remove the cassia bark and cloves and bay leaves before i blend it?

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: Cory Ander on February 25, 2007, 12:21 AM

Hello Ritchie,

As far as I'm aware, Chilli Prawn (and Andy) advocate leaving the whole spices in his base and blending them.

Regards,

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: ritchie on February 25, 2007, 10:52 AM

cheers for that CA

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: Cory Ander on February 25, 2007, 11:18 AM

You're welcome Ritchie,

It seems to me that this is sound provided that the whole spices are soft enough to be blended fine enough.

Regards,

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: Jeera on February 25, 2007, 12:03 PM

Cory, I diasgree. Chances are the wood will still be wood so I recommend removing the Cassia and cloves before  blending.

I've made the mistake before and almost runined my base - had to strain the lot which took forever.

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: Cory Ander on February 25, 2007, 12:23 PM

Good point Jeera,

If in doubt, fish 'em out!  :P

I reckon it would be a good idea to fish out any cassia bark or cinnamon sticks.

But, as I said, if the whole spices are otherwise soft enough to blend fine enough, I think they are ok to be left in.  I have just made Andy's curry base.  I left all of the whole spices in and they were soft enough to be blended into indiscernible oblivion!  Just to recap, this included:

• 10 cardamom pods
• 2 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 tsp cloves
• 1 tsp ajwain seeds

But I think I'm right in saying that CP and Andy advocate leaving them all in (rightly or wrongly)?

Regards,

Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: ritchie on February 25, 2007, 02:19 PM

Many thanks to you both for the advice, i found a lot more than the 20 cloves i put in to the sauce, i guess cloves shed layers when cooked, also the bark was more like a small digeridoo, so that went a journey. as did most of the bay leaves.The sauce is looking a treat, with a nice layer of spice oil on the top.

before the spice-mix
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after adding the spice-mix
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Title: Re: CP's UCB
Post by: Yousef on February 26, 2007, 09:17 AM

I have not tried this base yet, but the finished result seems to look very good.

This could be teh next one to try for me.

S