usha manohar wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
Bajirao wrote:My grandmom use to make cinnamon tea and she use to say it has several health benefits. She was uneducated but still she said that Cinnamon has ability to prevent many types of cancer. Our family regularly drinks cinnamon tea. It has delicious taste and lot of health benefits.
Cinnamon tea sounds quite delicious. I make mint tea, cardamom tea etc but have never tried cinnamon tea. What is the recipe of the tea that you drink at home? Do share here!
In my ancestral house here in Mangalore , we have several trees of cinnamon , some are very old and huge. The bark is collected and dried and then stored in cane baskets with neem leaves . We add cinnamon sticks to boiling water along with crushed ginger and some locally available herbs while making tea. It has a very nice aroma and is good for cold and sore throat.
I think many people in Karnataka have their own cinnamon and other spices trees. My mother's youngest sister is married to a Kannadiga Brahmin who is from Kosaguli, not sure where exactly it is, but somewhere near Sirsi. She too has many of the spices growing in their own land, such as Cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and other stuff. But she lives if Ahmedabad and after her annual trip to Karnataka, sometimes she passes through Pune as all her sisters live here, so we sometimes get a few of the spices she is carrying back home. I must say, the cinnamom that she gets for us is so much better and more fragrant than what I normally get in the shops! Works better too than other stuff.