The fruits of caraway were found during archeological excavations in the ruins of circular dwellings dating from the third millennium B.C. and are probably the oldest spice used in Europe. In Asia, too, caraway was grown in pre-Christian times.
Dioscorides recommended it for the stomach and in the Middle Ages it was the custom to end a feast with 'caraway cookies', apparently because caraway has very good carminative properties (relieving flatulence), for which purpose it is used in pharmaceutics to this day. It was used together with anise, coriander and fennel to flavour jams, and as we learn from Shakespeare's Falstaff it could also be used to flavour baked apples.
The so-called 'Spanish paprika' is the sweetest variety, the seeds and partitions of which are carefully removed before grinding the fruit.
Paprika is one of the basic condiments of cookery. Without it there wouldn't he any Hungarian goulash. It is used in sauces, soups, salads, cheese spreads, sausages and salamis, as well as in meat and poultry dishes. It is one of the ingredients used to make tomato ketchup and curry-powder. Besides the dried ground seasoning, the tinned paste from the fresh ripe fruit is gaining widespread popularity.
Caraway is a biennial plant indigenous to a wide area embracing almost all of Europe and Asia. Because of its large consumption it is nowadays grown as a field crop throughout most of Europe as well as in Asia and north Africa. It does not tolerate wet, heavy clay soils.
It is grown from seed and is an annual herb with branching stem attaining a height of 60 cm (2 ft). The fruits are harvested by hand as they ripen and are usually strung like beads and hung to dry under the eaves against the sun-baked walls of rural cottages
Dioscorides recommended it for the stomach and in the Middle Ages it was the custom to end a feast with 'caraway cookies', apparently because caraway has very good carminative properties (relieving flatulence), for which purpose it is used in pharmaceutics to this day. It was used together with anise, coriander and fennel to flavour jams, and as we learn from Shakespeare's Falstaff it could also be used to flavour baked apples.
The so-called 'Spanish paprika' is the sweetest variety, the seeds and partitions of which are carefully removed before grinding the fruit.
Paprika is one of the basic condiments of cookery. Without it there wouldn't he any Hungarian goulash. It is used in sauces, soups, salads, cheese spreads, sausages and salamis, as well as in meat and poultry dishes. It is one of the ingredients used to make tomato ketchup and curry-powder. Besides the dried ground seasoning, the tinned paste from the fresh ripe fruit is gaining widespread popularity.
Caraway is a biennial plant indigenous to a wide area embracing almost all of Europe and Asia. Because of its large consumption it is nowadays grown as a field crop throughout most of Europe as well as in Asia and north Africa. It does not tolerate wet, heavy clay soils.
It is grown from seed and is an annual herb with branching stem attaining a height of 60 cm (2 ft). The fruits are harvested by hand as they ripen and are usually strung like beads and hung to dry under the eaves against the sun-baked walls of rural cottages
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