MY LIFE WITH BACON continues with some good, old-fashioned home-cured and smoked bacon, plus the standard Bacon In The News section. I really like the flavor profile of the spice cardamon , so I searched for a bacon cure recipe using that ingredient. Check out the Wikipedia article on cardamom ; pretty interesting. Had no idea it was commonly used in Scandanavia. Apparently lots of folks from the middle east and India visited the nordic countries as far back as Viking days. A quote from the article: "It is a common ingredient in Indian cooking . It is also often used in baking in the Nordic countries, in particular in Sweden, Norway and Finland , where it is used in traditional treats such as the Scandinavian Jule bread Julekake, the Swedish kardemummabullar sweet bun, and Finnish sweet bread pulla. In the Middle East , green cardamom powder is used as a spice for sweet dishes, as well as traditional flavouring in coffee and tea. Cardamom is used to a wide extent in savoury ...
