Comments on: What the Heck Do I Do with Star Anise? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/10/what-the-heck-do-i-do-with-star-anise/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Helga http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/10/what-the-heck-do-i-do-with-star-anise/comment-page-1/#comment-15880 Helga Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:00:37 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=10486#comment-15880 For years now I make my yearly Cranberry Sauce for Thanksgiving to which I add several Star of Anis, Cinnamon Sticks (2)and an Orange peeled and cut up. I have to make several jars since I have a couple of friends who look forward to me giving them their own Cranberry Sauce and one of them uses it on Cottage Cheese and/or buttered bread. For years now I make my yearly Cranberry Sauce for Thanksgiving to which I add
several Star of Anis, Cinnamon Sticks (2)and an Orange peeled and cut up.
I have to make several jars since I have a couple of friends who look forward to me giving them their own Cranberry Sauce and one of them uses it on Cottage Cheese and/or buttered bread.

]]> By: Ann Applegarth http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/10/what-the-heck-do-i-do-with-star-anise/comment-page-1/#comment-14869 Ann Applegarth Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:08:09 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=10486#comment-14869 A friend in Oregon told me that the first time she had Chinese students as dinner guests, she observed that they did not seem to enjoy her homemade chicken soup. Since they obviously enjoyed everything else she served, she asked them after dinner if the soup was unlike the chicken soup in China. They assured her that it was nothing like Chinese soup. Probing further, she elicited an explanation: her soup "tasted like dead chicken." They compared recipes. The only difference was that the Chinese always added star anise when making chicken stock! A friend in Oregon told me that the first time she had Chinese students as
dinner guests, she observed that they did not seem to enjoy her homemade chicken soup. Since they obviously enjoyed everything else she served, she asked them
after dinner if the soup was unlike the chicken soup in China. They assured her that it was nothing like Chinese soup. Probing further, she elicited an explanation: her soup “tasted like dead chicken.” They compared recipes. The only difference was that the Chinese always added star anise when making chicken stock!

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