If you festive treats at home during Christmas time enjoy baking, you might have noticed that imported food as dried fruit, nuts and Christmas sauces can all be expensive and sometimes difficult to find in Indonesia. Fortunately, many seasonal ingredients simply are (market) to discover at your local pasar - these include the Christmas spices from Indonesia. Cloves, nutmeg and mace all of Maluku (the Spice Islands) and many other spices originate, including ginger, cinnamon and vanilla are also within easy reach.
The history of the spice trade is full of struggles of European control and in 1522 Spain was the first around the globe in search of the coveted spices to round - a journey in which only 18 men survived and 232 seafarers her lost life. Over the centuries, the powerhouses of Europe were rocketed for trade routes and prices of spices. Tucked in sealed boxes, the spices were often saved for the Christmas season in many wealthy households and became a status symbol.
Italian chef Bruno Giordano
to Indonesia visited five times, returns Italian chef Bruno Giordano to the Spice Islands each year in search of inspiration for the menu Ristorante Torre in his fish restaurant in northern Italy. "Spices, great culture and beaches Maluku one of my favorite make regions to visit," Bruno said. "The food is very simple (as always when remote places to visit), but to make use of nutmeg, clove and pepper tasty."
Bruno's Restaurant in collaboration with the Slow Food Foundation is to be promoted sustainable agriculture, small-scale producers, culture, and traditional knowledge. In his garden Bruno grows old varieties of fruit and he buys from local producers to the Community and "preseve our culture and products of mass production."
Inspired by Indonesia's local and fresh vegetables, fruits and spices to support, Bruno has also cultivated a wide range of Indonesian plants that are suitable for the mild temperature of Celle Ligure in northern Italy. "Now I have grown lemongrass, various kinds of Indonesian chilies (I use the leaves for soups), Taro pera Katak (bitter gourd), avocados, various kinds of Selasih (basil) as cinnamon basil, red basil, lemon basil and long beans, kangkung , ginger, galangal and passion fruit. "
French chef Simon Baudoin Similarly, the Indonesian products was impressed by the freshness and vitality, and to settle in Bandung, he now plans to open a bar called L'Societe, this New Year's Eve. Its newly opened pastry, Prenkis, aims to introduce French cakes and pies in the Indonesian market and Simon also uses fresh spices Maluku in his kitchen. "Many snacks around Indonesia using monosodium glutamate (MSG), which completes the flavors and makes everything taste the same. We use not only the real taste of the products and nutmeg enhances the flavor of our quiches"
A popular Christmas drink from America and Canada, which also uses nutmeg, eggnog is -. From milk, eggs and alcohol, often garnished with cinnamon or nutmeg. However nutmeg is indeed originates from the Banda Islands, and in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, it was thought that nutmeg could ward off the plague; like the Spices trickled through England, ordered Queen Elizabeth I, the first gingerbread figures in the shape of their important guests are made. Ginger is native to Southeast Asia and is easy to find at local Indonesian market. Most Gingerbread Recipes ground ginger recommend using, but Christmas recipes with fresh ginger and coconut are easy to find online.
Although cinnamon ( kayu manis ) comes from Sri Lanka; historically it was cultivated in Java and Sumatra, and was cultivated later by the Dutch. Now cinnamon sticks are easy to find on the market and are popular in Javanese beverages used. Cinnamon is an ingredient in many Christmas goodies including fruit cakes, mince pies and Christmas pudding (which can also be infused with mace and nutmeg).
But cloves come from the Spice Islands and after the Spaniard returned from their round-the-world trip published the Italian explorer Antonio Pigafetta his diary of led by Ferdinand Magellan expedition. Here Antonio describes Maluku, "No Carnations are in the world, grown except in the five mountains of the five islands. Almost every day we saw descend a mist and circle now and now another of those mountains, because of this superiority carnations are perfect. Every these people have cloves, and everyone watches over his own trees, although he is not care. Some nutmeg trees are found on this island. resembles the tree of our walnut tree, and has music as "
The historian David Snowden was recently a list of recipes in the medieval era compiled in England, who were in spices (proof of Abbey wealth) and a recipe of the monks of Evesham Abbey used surprisingly rich for nutmeg cookies
for Christmas Maluku, cloves, to use the taste to the Dutch-Indonesian fusion court found -. Brenebon . Red beans with pork and beef are cooked in a soup with cloves, chilli and nutmeg and the taste is said to be tastier. The word Brenebon derives (beans) and in the original Dutch version of the shell (known as bruine bonensoep or from the Dutch words bruine (brown) and bonen brown bean soup), or brown pinto beans are infused with cloves.
the spices the perfect opportunity to some of the traditional, slow food to cook with fresh, local ingredients. As chef Simon Baudoin says: "Nowadays, it is easy to find these spices in supermakets in France, but nothing beats the fresh quality here in Pasar."
Learn more
Antonio Pigafetta, , the first trip around the world, 1519-1522: A Report on Expedition Magellan (07) University of Toronto Press
history of the spice trade: http: // jakartaexpat .biz / history / from spice and profit /
the Ristorante Torre: http://www.ristorantetorrecelle.it/
Prenkis pastry (orders and deliveries): happyprenkis @ gmail.com
Slow Food: http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/
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