Scandinavian Cardamom Extract
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If you love the flavor of cardamom you can use
cardamom extract anywhere you would use vanilla.
It gives cakes or sugar cookies a more sophisticated flavor.
You can find the pods online (mountainroseherbs.com) or at Indian or Middle Eastern grocery stores.
It gives cakes or sugar cookies a more sophisticated flavor.
You can find the pods online (mountainroseherbs.com) or at Indian or Middle Eastern grocery stores.
Being Mormons, we don’t drink alcohol, but we use
vanilla extract in cooking, so this is similar to that.
½ pint glass jar
(1 cup)
1 C green
cardamom pods
Vodka
1. Fill
the jar with cardamom pods, partially crushed with the flat side of a large
knife, so that they are open.
2. Cover
with vodka and let sit for up to 2 days in a cool, dark cupboard. It quickly
becomes bitter if left to sit longer (unlike most extracts which require weeks
of soaking). At this point, strain
out the solids through a cheesecloth lined sieve, and keep the liquid with your
other extracts.
3. Use
in place of vanilla extract.
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