Cinnamon sugar

Name: Cinnamon sugar
Ingredients: ½ nutmeg, freshly grated; 5 black peppercorns; 4 green cardamom pods; 2 allspice berries; 1 bay leaf; 3 cloves; 2 x 10 cm (4 inch) cinnamon sticks; 500 g (2¼ cups) golden caster sugar; ½ teaspoon fine salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

About

A jar of fragrant spiced sugar is a glorious thing to have in the cupboard. Beautiful, economical, a great gift. Use it sprinkled over fruit or poffertjes, tossed with buttered popcorn, stirred into porridge, as a crunchy topping for a sponge cake, whipped into cream, or on hot buttered toast lightly caramelised under the grill ...

Ingredients

2 x 10 cm (4 inch) cinnamon sticks
½ nutmeg, freshly grated

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

In a dry frying pan over a medium heat, toast the cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, black peppercorns, whole cardamom pods, cloves and allspice berries. Stir for a few minutes until they smell toasty and fragrant.

Leave to cool then transfer to a food processer with the bay leaf. Blend to a rubble. Add the sugar and whiz again. Spread out on a baking sheet to dry for a few hours, then pass throu