In fact, cinnamon and cinnamon do not have half a hair relationship, cinnamon is the bark of the Chinese cinnamon, belonging to the camphor family camphoraceae, and cinnamon is a plant in the family of wood rhinoceros wood rhinoceros genus. From flower to leaf there is not a drop like. Cinnamon every year from June to August to open small white flowers, flower stalks longer, thin and lovely, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
Cinnamon and cinnamon relationship innocence, two words to say clearly, here we mainly to talk about cinnamon and cinnamon.
Only look at the appearance:
Cinnamon skin is brown and thick, dark color; cinnamon is yellowish brown, thin and crispy skin.
Cinnamon focus on brined meat for a thousand years,
Its good friend is star anise, the two are almost inseparable.
Cinnamon is often ground into cinnamon powder,
sprinkled on bread, desserts, coffee,
or used directly in red wine,
the sweet aroma of which is easy to get hooked.
In this comparison, cinnamon is like a sweet little girl with a bookish aroma, while cinnamon, inexplicably, gives people a very manly feeling.
The two seemingly very different, the relationship is actually very close. Cinnamon and cinnamon with the same family and genus, are the bark of the cinnamon tree, the difference between the two methods of use, not because of Western tastes, not brine meat masters go to the wrong kitchen, in the end, or the difference between the species.
In the Chinese spice world, cinnamon is one of the few local spices.
The taste is pungent and tangy, but then slowly sweetens (don't ask me how I know, I thought of it as jerky when I was a kid), and after cooking, that soul-stirring aroma burrows into the food, bringing a warm, tangy flavor. Cinnamon can be ironic~
But, in the beginning, people didn't know it could be used as a spice, and cinnamon entered people's lives as a medicine.
The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica says of cinnamon: "Pungent and warm in flavor, it is the mainstay of all diseases, nourishes the spirit, facilitates the joints, and tonifies the middle and strengthens the qi." During the Qin and Han Dynasties, when cinnamon was more regarded as a kind of longevity medicine, it was sought after by princes and nobles, and was used in large quantities, and later added directly to dishes, mainly for marinating and cooking meat. Cooking meat with cinnamon to pray for longevity of the princes and nobles eventually grew old, but they took the cinnamon with health wishes from the pharmacy to the stove, opened it as a spice of the wonderful life.
And at this time, the Western world, also tasted the fragrance of cinnamon. It is different from Chinese cinnamon, smooth fragrance, sweet more than pungent, this sweet aroma is full of penetration, is a spring breeze, with warmth.
At that time, in the West cinnamon was not only an expensive spice, but was also used as a tribute. In order to obtain this mysterious spice of the East, they used Ceylon as a stronghold in an attempt to monopolize the trade in cinnamon, which was once more expensive than gold! Westerners were naturally very cautious when using this expensive spice, and the best way to use it was of course to grind it into powder and sprinkle it in bread for baking (if you replace cinnamon with cinnamon on bread...). I can't imagine the flavor).
Today, in addition to being a spice, cinnamon also symbolizes happiness and sweetness in the daily lives of Westerners.
The Swedes invented bread that is uniquely cinnamon, the cinnamon rolls mentioned at the beginning of the peony!
The Swedes also designate October 4 of every year as Cinnamon Roll Day,
when people will put down their work and make cinnamon rolls with their families.
On Christmas Eve, the Germans will use cinnamon to cook red wine, the alcohol of red wine plus the sweetness of cinnamon, the aroma of the house, with a cup of cinnamon wine to welcome Christmas.
Want to cook your own cinnamon red wine at home peony here is the recipe:
Half a cinnamon, apple orange slices, a cup of red wine into the pot, cook for 5 minutes on it, you can also according to their own tastes, add a little brown sugar ~ cinnamon hot, blood, cold stomach pain in the baby can try, but pregnant women, menstruation, don't drink it Oh ~
Fujing in the beginning of the winter time has also developed cinnamon cake, the cake is very suitable for cold winter. Very suitable for cold winter!
After writing the story of cinnamon spices,
Raw to write their own hungry, have always thought that cinnamon is cinnamon potty, now you can rest assured that boldly go to eat desserts ah~