Chicken bald back

[C&T]

A question if I may...

 

I now have LOADS of Cinnamon sticks, from Madagascar and places (been bought back for me, wish I had been!).

 

Any one got any ideas what to do with it? (apart from more cranberry vodka... )

 

I don't want to have to buy loads more expensive ingredients to go with it - but don't want to waste it either!

 

Any suggestions very welcome!

[Cinnamon]

If you use plain brown paper for your christmas wrapping, a bandle of cinnamon sticks make a nice decoration.

 

Or you could string them together to go on the Christmas tree?

 

Sorry,not foodie ideas,but ideas non the less

[C&T]

Like the idea - trouble is these sticks don't look in any way pretty and very difficult to tie together... They really are bits of bark off the tree - nothing like the nice neat things you get from the supermarket!!

 

Be such a shame to waste them - just don't know what to do with them!

[Rhapsody]

Make a big batch of infused milk for white sauces and freeze?

[chickencam]

They are great in homemade curries and tagines, and savoury rice dishes.

[Mrs Frugal]

Mulled wine/Cider .

[C&T]

Hmmmm More alcohol! Now thats an idea...

 

Found this on internet:

 

Ingredients

6 large apples, diced

1 litre/1 pint 15fl oz cider

250ml/8¾fl oz dark rum

3 cinnamon sticks

3 star anise

1 litre/1 pint 15fl oz water

100g/3½oz sugar

 

Method

1. Place all the ingredients in a pan, except the rum. Cook slowly for one hour 15 minutes, then add the rum. Serve warm or cold.

 

Sounds very nice... I love rum and cider!

 

Curries I seldom make from scratch - just because there is a local farmers market where a lady sells her own sauces that are gorgeous - and I try and support her. But I really should try to one day! Perhaps this is the shove that I need!

[Lesley]

Mulled wine/Cider .

 

I'm not saying anything

 

...but Kate's answers are always about booze

[Mrs Frugal]

[theherd123]

Nice one Lesley!

Tis true!

Kate always suggests boozy things!

 

 

I was going to suggest the same things as Cinnamon - there is a 'How to...' at Hobby craft about making cinnamon stick decorations for your tree.

 

http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/Pages/Ideas/Idea.aspx?id=1195

 

There you go!

[Chucky Mama]

I have a huge bag that cost next to nothing from our local Asian supermarket. I have tied some up with pretty stuff and put them in my Christmas hampers.

[Charlottechicken]

I have a bunch of cinnamon sticks and tall thin gold candles tied with a gold voile ribbon in a gold painted plant pot. Looks great sat on the shelf in the hallway and smelled nice too, for the first few years

 

I should add that I didn't waste perfectly good cinnamon sticks but I bought them for crafting and they got left in the shed and it was the plant pot or the bin

[C&T]

Thanks all for the ideas!

 

I shall have to look again at them and see if I can make them look pretty - or I shall just have to use them for boozy drinks...