Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon Quills

Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon is True, Ceylon Cinnamon. Cinnamon has a sweet, perfumed woody smell and a delicate warm woody flavour, with hints of citrus but without any bitterness or overpowering pungency.

Cinnamon is has an affinity for dried fruit and many fresh fruits, so is great in fruit pies. We add a cinnamon quill to fruit (blackberries or rhubarb) when it’s stewing, to infuse it with an exotic flavour or add a cinnamon quill to tea for a masala chai or to hot chocolate to balance off the richness of the milk or to red wine for a mulled wine drink. Whole cinnamon sticks also go really well in curries, so slot one into a lentil dhal or a lamb curry.

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

More about Cinnamon Quills

Cinnamon comes from the fine inner skin of fragrant tree bark, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, which grows wild throughout Asia.

It takes 20 – 30 years of growth before cinnamon can be harvested from a tree. Thereafter, the trees continue to grow and produce cinnamon for many years. At harvest time, local farmhands gather and travel to the sometimes very remote areas where the trees grow.

For cinnamon sticks, the upper branches are carefully cut and the inner bark removed, which curls naturally into quills about 2½ cm in diameter.

Cinnamon sticks are attractive and uniform, with a slightly sweet flavour. For ground cinnamon, large chunks are removed from the lower, older bark, which is stronger and more flavourful.