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i have found my new favorite spice/tea/candy/lifesaver ingredient! as an impulse i bought some licorice or liquorice (????) root from a central-eastern market in sörnäinen a couple of months ago. the arab salesman asked if i knew what i was buying (i still havent figured out why).well, i tried to make some tea of it back then but it failed probably because i didnt grind the roots enough. yesterday i tried making some tea and bashed the roots really hard in a stone mortar (spicegrinder not bomb-thrower, weird doublemeaning word....) and the tea was delicious!! then i read about licorice on wikipedia (ofcourse i read about everything on wikipedia!)
Sticks of liquorice typically have a diameter between two and ten millimetres. Although they resemble plain wooden sticks, they are soft enough to be chewed on. They used to be popular among Dutch, Danish and Swedish children[citation needed]. In Yorkshire in the early 1950s, wooden sticks of liquorice, around 8mm diameter, were readily available (and popular) in sweet shops. They were bought as 'sticks of liquorice', and they were chewed by young children.
the first moments i chewed on a stick i was in heaven! the ones i have are dried and really really dry and hard so you have to chew pretty hard. i think ill try soaking them in water overnight... i wonder if i can brush my teeth with it..
btw i found the pic at "candy.com", very suitable! finding some "candy" i can eat is always great (as i dont eat any white sugar because i consider it an extremely addictive and hazardous drug (its crystal, white powder, duh!!!) more on this later someday.....)
i think this post has some kind of weirdness going on..... almost as if it was late and i'd had two beers and a spliff...oh.....
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