Aromatic Plants in Desserts

An herb is a plant that is appreciated for essence, aroma, or other intrinsic worth. Herbs are used in cooking, baking, as linctuses, and for pious functions. Gastronomic herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amounts and provide flavour rather than substance to food.

Some culinary herbs are shrubs such as rosemary, or trees such as bay laurel. Nothing tastes more delectable than freshly baked bread flavoured with the herbs from your garden. Herbs can add a lot of value to plain bread made with flour and yeast. It not adds that aroma in baking but it also adds to the mildness of the bread making it more scrumptious and pungent in taste.

When working with herbs in desserts one needs to match the potency of the herb to the might of the associated items. Being a chef one always feel that herbs in desserts add not only beauty as garnish but also they change the dynamics of the dessert and the after taste. From records if one checks, spices were used in Egyptian times as the archaeologists discovered spices in Egyptian tombs. In addition, there never has been scarcity of spices in middle-eastern desserts recipes thus there is no reason to think that these preparations are new or as we would like to say part of the fusion cuisine.

On the other hand, so far there has been diminutive use of herbs in dessert, we all discern the nuptials made in paradise which is that of chocolate and mint but rarely else is recorded. This is why the contemporary style of adding herbs to desserts makes for rather stirring recipes. To name a few herbs: Mint, Basil, Caraway, Chives, Dill, Fennel, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Oregano and Lavender.

Italians have been using the sinful trio of basil, garlic and oregano for ages. Every Cuisine uses the herbs in either fresh or dry form or the other in bread making. Let's discuss some herbs not so commonly used at homes.

Lavender