color more uniform. Mysore cardamom is
often sold green, its color fixed by a three-
hour dose of moderate heat (130ºF/55ºC)
before drying.
Cardamom is mentioned along with
cinnamon in the Old Testament, but doesn’t
seem to have reached Europe until the Middle
Ages. Today the Nordic countries consume
10% of world trade, mainly in baked goods,
while Arab countries take 80% for their
cardamom coffee. Gahwa is made by boiling
together freshly roasted and ground coffee
with freshly broken green cardamom pods.
Large cardamom, also called Nepal or
greater Indian cardamom, is the seed of a
cardamom relative, Amomum subulatum,
which grows in the eastern Himalayas of
North India, Nepal, and Bhutan. (Other
species of Amomum and Aframomum are also
used.) The seeds are borne in a reddish pod an
inch/2.5 cm long, with a sweet surrounding
pulp. Large cardamom has a strong, harsh
barry
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