The Malabar cardamom plant is a large perennial herb with a thick fleshy root-stock, which sends up flowering stems, 6 to 12 ft.
The Ceylon cardamom attains a length of an inch and a half and is about a third of an inch broad, with a brownish pericarp and a distinct aromatic odour.
Bruise an ounce of gentian root, and two drams of cardamom seeds together: add an ounce of lemon peel, and three drams of Seville orange peel.
April and the last day of September, at a Cardamom plantation on the crests of the Ghauts.
In the same garden I also saw cardamom plants about seven feet high and in blossom; these had been planted eighteen months previously.
There are some who mix with it a small quantity of cloves and cardamom seeds; others add sugar.
Several rounds of coffee, without milk or sugar, but sometimes flavored with cardamom seeds, are served to the guest at first welcome; and coffee may be had at all hours between meals, or whenever the occasion demands it.
Two pounds and a half of flour, a pint and a half of milk, half a pound of butter, six ounces of sugar, one even teaspoonful of cardamom seeds pounded fine, and one cake of compressed yeast.
Melt the butter in the milk, mix the sugar, flour and cardamom together and stir the butter and milk into it with the yeast cake dissolved in a little milk, mix thoroughly and set to rise.
Remove from the fire; when cold stir in one good ounce of sugar, an ounce of almonds blanched and pounded very fine with a dozen cardamom seeds, three well beaten eggs, a little at a time, half a teaspoonful of almond extract.
Put in about two cents worth of cardamom seed and a little rosewater.
A teaspoon of cardamom seed may be sprinkled into the dough.
But Mrs. Bett was eating cardamom seeds with exceeding gusto, and Lulu looked away.
In some cases cardamom and pepper seeds are added to the quid to give it pungency.
Saigon cinnamon, Jamaica ginger, galangal, clove, cardamom seed, extracted with a mixture of alcohol and water.
Fluidextract of rhubarb (8%), fluidextract of bitter orange peel, tincture of cardamom in sugar and sherry wine.
Gentian (10%), bitter orange peel and cardamom seed in glycerin, alcohol and water.
Rhubarb (20%) andcardamom seed, in glycerin, alcohol and water.
Cardamom seed, Saigon cinnamon, caraway and cochineal in alcohol, glycerin and water.
In Hindustan, the cardamomof Nepal is called the Desi Elachi, while the small cardamom of Malabar (Amomum repens, W.
The plant in question is a species of amomum, as that genus is defined by Dr Roxburgh, and differs very much from the cardamom of Malabar.
In the southern districts of India, pepper and cardamomseeds are added to the quid, and it is then considered to be a partial preventive against malarial influences.
One drachm ofcardamom seed, two scruples of saffron, three ounces of green root, two scruples of cochineal, and four ounces of orange-peel.
Those who live at the two former places are agrestic slaves of landlords who own cardamom plantations on the ghats.
The Mannan country extends southward from the limit occupied by the Muduvans on the Cardamom Hills to a point south of the territory now submerged by the Periyar works.
Later on, they settled in a portion of the Cardamom Hills called Makara-alum.
At the season of the cardamom crop, they come down to the plains once a week with the produce.
For the following note on those who inhabit the Cardamom hills, I am indebted to Mr. Aylmer Ff.
The tribe is settled on the northern and western portion of the Cardamom Hills, and the High Range of Travancore, known as the Kanan Devan hills, and there is, I believe, one village on the Anaimalai hills.
On the Cardamom Hills there may still exist a tribe of dwarfs, of which very little is known.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cardamom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: condiment; herb; pepper; salt; spice
