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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Roasting spices
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 10:28:22 EDT
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I've never heard of "roasting" spices, but the Indian cooks of my
acquaintance do something which may be what you're looking for: they
begin almost every Indian dish they make by grinding and lightly frying
the spices in oil.  (Their term for the practice is "making a vaghar".)

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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