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¿QUÉ ES?
A juniper berry isn’t really a berry. It’s a female seed cone with, for a normally woody “cone,” heavily fleshy, and merged seed scales, that give it a berry-like appearance. It’s a great contrasting spice for heavy meats, and seafoods with a strong flavor profile.
The ground edition of Juniper Berries is a convenience, if you don’t have a coffee/spice grinder, or mortar & pestle at home. The advantage of the whole juniper berry is that you can control the texture that you need from it. Smashed, roughly-crushed, ground to crumbles, or powder, you get both the specific texture that you need, AND, because essential oils that give any spice its big flavor are released when you expose them to air (oxidize), the freshness, unless you keep a silica gel pack in your ground spice containers, is going to deteriorate faster than the hearty little berries, dried, and kept in air-tight containers that limit their oxidization.
Still, if you use a lot of it, at this grind, to make a rub, or a pickling spice, then the convenience, along with Spice Jungle’s high quality sourcing, and top-grade grind, can be a blessing!
EXPERIENCIA
If you like gin, you know juniper. It’s a key botanical in gin’s flavor profile. Juniper’s flavor is a piney-sweet, and fresh, a touch peppery, with a clean, mildly citrus aroma that resets the palate like a breath of fresh forest air. The citrus-piney-aromatic flavor is a contrast: It offsets the fat-heaviness, or assertive flavor profiles of meats, and seafoods, and adds depth, like a milder cousin to crushed black pepper, in pickled vegetables, and sauces.
Like strong peppers, it should be used in MODERATION. For pregnant/nursing women, and some health conditions see our HEALTH WARNING, below.
GEOGRAFÍA CULINARIA
USOS TRADICIONALES
- Sprinkled over a gin cocktail for garnish/infusion;
- Game meats: Venison, or elk;
- Domestic meat and poultry: Rabbit, duck, or goose;
- Fish with high natural oils, like salmon, or char;
- Pickled celery, or sauerkraut.
IMPROVISATIONAL ‘RIFFS’
- Ostrich steak with blackberry-juniper brandy sauce;
- Snohomish duck - Slow roasted duck over cherry wood with a juniper-Sage-Black Garlic rub;
- Quail & Pasta with a juniper-rosemary sauce;
- Wild rice topped with crushed juniper berries and pine nuts.
LA HISTORIA
Juniper berries have been a staple spice for peoples ranging from the early Native Americans, on one continent, to the Norse, Germanic, and Eastern European peoples in the major continental plat of the Northern Hemisphere.
Gin might better be called “Jun,” in English. Gin is the shortening of the French cousin of it “genièvre” or the Dutch grandparent of gin, “jenever” Both spirits name means exactly “juniper.”
European folklore weaves theories of planting juniper trees next to your home as a protection from evils during the witch trials. It was said that juniper beside the door to your home would prevent a witch from entering.
ALIAS
- dëllinjë – (Albanian)
- ipuruak – (Basque)
- ядловец – (Belarusian)
- kleka – (Bosnian)
- хвойна – (Bulgarian)
- ginebre – (Catalan)
- smreka – (Croatian)
- jalovec – (Czech)
- enebær – (Danish)
- jenever – (Dutch)
- kadakas – (Estonian)
- kataja – (Finnish)
- genévrier – (French)
- zimbro – (Galician)
- Wacholder – (German)
- άρκευθος (árkefthos) – (Greek)
- boróka – (Hungarian)
- Einum – (Icelandic)
- aitil – (Irish)
- ginepro – (Italian)
- kadiķis – (Latvian)
- kadagys – (Lithuanian)
- смрека – (Macedonian)
- ġnibru – (Maltese)
- einer – (Norwegian)
- jałowiec – (Polish)
- zimbro – (Portuguese)
- ienupăr – (Romanian)
- можжевельник – (Russian)
- клека – (Serbian)
- jalovec – (Slovak)
- brina – (Slovenian)
- enebro – (Spanish)
- enbär – (Swedish)
- ялівець – (Ukrainian)
- meryw – (Welsh)
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