Hi Everyone,
I haven't read all of this thread so may have missed it, but has anyone actually made the large quantity of base from this book yet?
If so, what was it like?
Hi 976bar , last weekend I made 9ltrs of the Undercover Curry Base the aroma around the house was as near a BIR I have ever had

As Secret Santa suggested I may have over done the amount of Hing as I used ' Whole Hing ' which I had to grind myself and following an email sent to Dave Loydens the Author of the book he confirmed it is the Hing in the Yellow containers ( Vandevi type ) which is mixed with - rice flour,gum arabic,turmeric, and wheat flour.
The Curries I made using the base were a little disappointing tasting a little bitter but this could of been the recipe I used which did not suit the already Curry like base , the next time I will follow the Madras recipe in the book and see if it's an improvement.