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Article: Make your own garlic powder: for gourmet flavor, natural medicine, homegrown gifts, and value-added profits.(The garden)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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I'm a small scale garlic grower in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. A few years ago I dried some of my garlic blubs and ground them into powder. Then I sprinkled the homemade seasoning on a buttered slice of Italian-bread toast and took a bite. When my taste buds realized what was happening, the chorus of Handel's Messiah started to resonate around me. I experienced what can only be described as a garlic powder epiphany (my life hasn't been the same since).
I yelled to my wife and kids to come quick. I made garlic toast for all and hovered over each as they took their first bite. No, they didn't hear the music, but yes, they did love the powder. We ...