Topic: a couple of questions

[goncalo]

Gagomes. I think you are better off grinding your own cardamon. It is a pain but worth it. Seems like the commercial powdered stuff is ground seeds and pod so you get all the crap as well. Do it yourself and you just grind the seeds. Suggest krupps spice mill or similar to do this.

Oh, bummer. Speaking of which, I often tend to forget/miss the pods and cloves in my pilau rice, does anyone use a net/tea bags to prevent them hiding around the rice?

[RubyDoo]

Gagomes. I think you are better off grinding your own cardamon. It is a pain but worth it. Seems like the commercial powdered stuff is ground seeds and pod so you get all the crap as well. Do it yourself and you just grind the seeds. Suggest krupps spice mill or similar to do this.

Oh, bummer. Speaking of which, I often tend to forget/miss the pods and cloves in my pilau rice, does anyone use a net/tea bags to prevent them hiding around the rice?

I don' t bother too much in the rice. I find the cardys tend to end up on the top anyway and are easy to pick off. Cloves are few and far between just pick them out as you see them. I like the odd whole spice in the rice anyway. Sometimes nice to bite on a cardy as well.  The Indies use them to suck and bite on as an aid to digestion.

[goncalo]

Thanks RubyDoo. I'm just wondering, could I use c2g base - the 7 litre pressure cooker recipe and reduce the number of onions slightly only to fit my 6litre pressure cooker?

[RubyDoo]

Thanks RubyDoo. I'm just wondering, could I use c2g base - the 7 litre pressure cooker recipe and reduce the number of onions slightly only to fit my 6litre pressure cooker?

of course just scale it down but do you then have a 12 litre pot to expand into? Otherwise you need more pots on the go. That is why I do a 3 litrevish load in a 7 l cooker 

[goncalo]

Thanks RubyDoo. I'm just wondering, could I use c2g base - the 7 litre pressure cooker recipe and reduce the number of onions slightly only to fit my 6litre pressure cooker?

of course just scale it down but do you then have a 12 litre pot to expand into? Otherwise you need more pots on the go. That is why I do a 3 litrevish load in a 7 l cooker 

Ah, I completely forgot the bit where you expand it! 3 litre it is then ;-) thanks for all the help here and privately RubyDoo!

[Peripatetic Phil]

I got myself a bag of grounded jaggery. When I open the bag, it has a bit of a vinegar/cheesy like aroma. Is this ok?

I bought myself some jaggery yesterday in a foil-sealed jar; on opening there was neither a vinegary nor a cheesy aroma, and on tasting the jaggery I think would have been unable to say in a blind tasting whether I was eating jaggery or muscovado sugar.

** Phil.

[goncalo]

I got myself a bag of grounded jaggery. When I open the bag, it has a bit of a vinegar/cheesy like aroma. Is this ok?

I bought myself some jaggery yesterday in a foil-sealed jar; on opening there was neither a vinegary nor a cheesy aroma, and on tasting the jaggery I think would have been unable to say in a blind tasting whether I was eating jaggery or muscovado sugar.

** Phil.

Thanks, with regards to the smell, I think it may be different to vinegar or cheese. I just can't describe it any better. I tried it and it's quite sweet, so it's OK,