Cumin, spicy fruit

1. Cuminum cyminum, is a small annual herb of the parsley family, believed to be native to southern Egypt, Turkestan and the eastern Mediterranean. It grows to a height of 30 to 60 cm and makes a long stem with many branches with long, finely divided, deep green leaves and small flowers, which are white or pink in color.

In the Bible

1. This herb is also mentioned in the Bible, both in the Old and in the New Testament, for example in Isaiah 28: 27: “ wagon wheel not go round about the cumin; but the vetches are beaten with a staff and the cumin with a stick. ”It seems that the cumin is still threshed with a stick on the many primitive farms in the Middle East. In Matthew 23:23 Jesus reproached the scribes and Pharisees that they "titrated" such articles as cumin "for you tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin," neglecting matters of more fundamental importance, such as justice, mercy, and faith.

Dodoens about cumin

1. For example, in Dodoens 'Comijn' is mentioned for expelling and scythes makes all winds of the maghen des buycx der dermen. It is the antispasmodic, carminative effect for which the seed is still used today. Cumin was also used against other cramps and pains, such as menstruation 'crimpsels' but apparently also against cramps of the male member. Quote: ende der mother (womb), ende es provided dyen seer goet till that crimp, weedom ende pain des buycx, not only inghenomen maer oock from below with a clisterie gheset / oft mixed with barley flour ende van buyten daer on gheleyt. And 'Comijn expels and sceyds die swellinghe ende blastinghen van der manlicheyt and the scamelijcken sufferers there on gheleyt'.

Cultivation of cumin

1. The plants require a mild, even climate and a fairly long growing season of three or four months and a fertile, well-drained, sandy loam soil in a sunny position. It is a tar annual herb that cannot tolerate prolonged dry heat. The crop is ready for harvest when the plants start to wither. In the Mediterranean, harvesting, drying and threshing were done by hand. Iran is the world's largest exporter of cumin seeds. which is called "green cumin" and is mainly grown in the province of Khoerasan.

Botany and naming: Cuminum cyminum L.

1. Blades double sprung, with linear skids. Screens 3-5 beams. Wrap leaves and wrapping leaves linear, very pointed. Calyx teeth uneven, the longest with a needle-shaped tip. Petals white to pink. Fruit on the ribs with spiny hairs, in between with papillae or star-haired, 5-6 mm long. Unlike caraway, the fruits are straight in shape.

Recipe: Carrot soup with cumin and coriander

1. 1 kilo carrots, 1 potato, 2 cubes of stock, cumin, fresh coriander, pepper, salt and olive oil.