Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon Ground

Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon Ground is True, Ceylon Cinnamon. It’s from a tropical tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum.

Cinnamon is a finely ground, dusty tan-coloured powder. It has a sweet, perfumed woody smell and a delicate, warm, woody flavour, with hints of citrus and no bitterness.

Cinnamon Ground is fabulous in baking and great with dried fruit and many fresh fruits, like in fruit pies. We love cinnamon with apples, baked with cinnamon and sugar, then covered with crumble topping. Try it in milk puddings, pastries or a pinch sprinkled onto overnight oats. For a stronger baking cinnamon, cassia is often used.

Though it’s mostly used in baking, cinnamon is great in curries, like in tofu curries and meat curries, especially lamb.

Axel’s Tasting Notes: Cinnamon is Sweet: sweet, woody, perfumed and hints of citrus, with no bitterness.

Food Pairing: Aubergine, Courgettes, Eggs, Lamb, Baking – stewed apple, cakes, pastries, milk puddings, pumpkin pie; Curry Powders, Mixed Spice.

More about Cinnamon

Cinnamon comes from the fine inner skin of fragrant tree bark, which grows wild throughout Asia. It takes 20 – 30 years of growth before cinnamon can be harvested from a tree.

At harvest time, farmhands travel to where the trees grow. For ground cinnamon, large chunks are removed from the lower, older bark. These are stronger and more flavourful than the younger bark used for quills.

Cinnamon powder has a complex and fragrant citrus flavour that is full of exotic sweetness. Cinnamon’s perfumed aroma is unique but has hints of clove, nutmeg and sandalwood.