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Article: IT ADDS A TASTY SPIN TO A BRAISE OR ROAST POMEGRANATE MOLASSES A TANGY SECRET WORTH SHARING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2001
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Every home cook worth his or her sea salt likes to have a secret
ingredient, a special item discovered in an ethnic food store or on a
trip out of the country. It enables you to smile slyly at curious
dinner guests and say, "Oh? Funny you should notice. Just a little
air-parched sassafras I picked up the last time I was in the
Caucasus."
One of my longtime secret ingredients was pomegranate molasses, a
reduced concentrate of sour pomegranate juice. Now the cat (or
pomegranate) is out of the bag; you can find pomegranate molasses in
supermarkets, stocked on the same shelf of Middle-Eastern ingredients
as orange or almond water.
Molasses and fresh pomegranate kernels (the pip, or seed, plus ...