Try something new! Our featured spice for the month of December is cinnamon. You’re welcome to pick up a Spice Club kit beginning Monday, December 1st at 9am. The kit will contain:
- a sample of the spice
- recipe cards
- history of the spice
- a list of cookbooks you can check out from the library
Spice Club kits go fast! Unable to make it in time to grab one of your own? Try out a recipe! The recipes included in the kit are linked below.
Cinnamon Quick Facts
- The spice cinnamon comes from the bark of a bushy evergreen tree that is native to Sri Lanka and is also cultivated in South America and the West Indies
- The spice is reddish brown and has a warm sweet taste
- Cinnamon is used to flavor both sweet and savory foods
- Essential oil is distilled from bark fragments and is used in food, liqueur, perfume, and drugs (because it is a coagulant and promotes tissue regeneration)
- Cinnamon was once more valuable than gold
- In Egypt it was used for embalming and religious practices
- In medieval Europe cinnamon was used for religious rites and flavoring
- Later cinnamon was the most profitable spice in the Dutch East India Company trade
Questions about Spice Club? Contact Ashley at 315-785-7714 or send her an email.