Blended Spices

Specially blended spices are offered commercially for some food preparations, such as liver sausage which uses a spice blend consisting of sweet marjoram, mace, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, pepper and a little cinnamon. 

Spice preparations are obtained by the addition of spices and blended spices to other substances, such as salt, sugar, glutamate, yeast extract and starch flour. 

Chill Powder. Chili powder is a commercial blend of several spices, ie, chili peppers, oregano, cumin seed, onion and gadic powders, aUspice, perhaps cloves, and others. Chili powder is the basic flavor for many highly spiced dishes, among them chili con came, and is used in cocktail sauces and ground meats. 

Mustard is marketed in three forms, ie, as a seed as a prepared blend of ground mustard seed, vinegar, salt, sugar, and other spices and as powdered dry mustard, also known as ground mustard or mustard flour. The seeds of the white or yellow mustard add pungency to any preparation, and that of the black mustard is required for aroma. Mustard is the largest volume spice imported into the United States and its use covers almost every flavor category except dessert items. 

Liquid food ingredients encapsulated are typically oil-soluble flavors, spices (see Flavors and spices), and vitamins (qv). Even food oils and fats are encapsulated (63). These core materials normally are encapsulated with a water-soluble shell material appHed by spray drying from water, but fat shell formulations are used occasionally. Preferred water-soluble shell materials are gum arabic, modified starch, or blends of these polymers with maltodextrins. Vitamins are encapsulated with 2ero bloom strength gelatin by spray drying. 

Clove bud oil is frequendy used iu perfumery for its natural sweet-spicy note but the greatest appHcation is iu the davor area iu a large variety of food products, including spice blends, seasoniugs, piddes, canned meats, baked goods, ready-made mixes, etc. As iu the case of cinnamon bark oil, its well-known antiseptic properties make it ideal for appHcation iu mouth washes, gargles, dentifrices, and pharmaceutical and dental preparations. Candy, particulady chewing gum, is also davored with clove bud oil iu combination with other essential oils. 

Benedictine was made in 1510 by Dom Bernardo Vinceki at the abbey in Erecomp, Normandy. It is one of the few Hqueurs that is aged for four years after blending. Benedictine and Brandy (B B) was introduced in 1937 after the discovery that Americans were adding brandy to Benedictine. Chartreuse, first made in 1605, is formulated with over 130 herbs and spices macerated in brandy. 

Sweet chocolate can contain milk or milk soHds (up to 12% max), nuts, coffee, honey, malt, salt, vanillin, and other spices and flavors as well as a number of specified emulsifiers. Many different kiads of chocolate can be produced by careful selection of bean blends, controlled roasting temperatures, and varying amounts of ingredients and flavors (20). 

Ms. Kim previously worked at Michael Jordan s, the steak house in Grand Central Terminal, and she seems to appreciate the standard bar and a hard night out. But she knows that she wants a Cabernet-Merlot blend for her red wine martini, because of its specific notes of spice. And she achieves it the cocktail is seasoned as surely, and subtly, as if she had pinched powders into it. 

Nitrile rubber (NBR), a copolymer of 1,3-butadiene with 20-40% acrylonitrile, is noted for its oil resistance. More than 150 million pounds are produced annually in the United States. Applications include fuel tanks, gasoline hoses, and creamery equipment. Nitrile resin is made by copolymerizing acrylonitrile with about 20-30% styrene or methyl methacrylate in the presence of NBR or SBR rubber to yield a blend of the graft terpolymer and homocopolymer. Applications include extruded and blow-molded containers for household, automotive, and other products as well as some nonbeverage foods (spices, vitamins, candy). 

Pasteurized blended cheese =S43 >41 Cheese cream, anhydrous milk fat, dehydrated cream (in quantities such that the fat derived from them is less than 5% (w/w) in finished product) water salt food-grade colours, spices and flavours mould inhibitors (sorbic acid, potassium/sodium sorbate, and/or sodium/calcium propionates), at levels sgO.2% (w/w) finished product... 

Vermouth is prepared from a base wine, extracting flavorants from herbs and spices in wine or a brandy mixture, blending the extract with the base wine, fortifying the mixture to the desired level, and finally maturing the prepared vermouth (Amerine et ah, 1980). The basic steps involved in a typical vermouth production process are illustrated in Fig. 8.1. 

The spice is used throughout Europe and Asia and is smoked in a type of cigarette, known locally as kretek, in Indonesia and in occasional coffee bars in the West, mixed with marijuana to create marijuana spliffs. Clove cigarettes (Indonesian kretek) are cigarettes made with a complex blend of tobacco, cloves and a flavouring sauce . Cloves are also an important incense material in Chinese and Japanese culture. 

Freezing is most critical for those mushrooms known to contain psilocin, such as Psilocybe cyanescens or Stropharia cubensis, because they have a short shelf life at room temperature. For ingestion, such powders can be capped, blended into a "smoothie, or drunk with chocolate. A chocolate drink prepared with honey, spices and water (there was no milk in pre-Conquest America aside from corn whey) has long been associated with mushroom rituals and is quite pleasant served before a velada. 

Lecithins can be dissolved in oil, dispersed in water, or used as is, in release applications. Oil-free lecithins can be dry blended into breading, coatings, and spice or seasoning mixes for release of the coated food product from the food-contact surface. In food products that have a high surface area-to-volume ratio, like pancakes or fortune cookies, lecithin can be added directly to the product formulation to achieve release from the cooking/baking surface. Effective release depends on... 

In addition to using herbs and spices in your cooking, you can benefit from their many healing properties by drinking herbal teas. Try them instead of coffee or black tea, both of which are acid-forming in your body. There are many great options, from peppermint tea to blends formulated for medicinal purposes, such as detoxification or combating insomnia or PMS. Check out... 

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