Ground cinnamon is important in many sweet desserts as well as savory ones. Add ground cinnamon to pastries, coffee cake, candies, puddings, hot cereals, fruits, sweet sauces and even liqueurs. Add it to savory foods such as tomatoes sauce, Mexican mole sauce. Cinnamon is also used to add aroma or flavor to other products such as candles, soap, mouthwash and toothpaste.

Cinnamon is unusual among spices because freshly ground cinnamon is not always the best choice. Most spices are always better freshly ground because spices start losing volatile oils and thus flavor as soon as they are ground, the longer they sit after grinding the more flavor and aroma are lost. Although this also holds true for ground cinnamon, producers often grind the best cinnamon bark for sale as ground cinnamon and the lower quality cinnamon bark is rolled, dried, and sold as cinnamon sticks. The lower quality of bark used to make most cinnamon stick far out ways the loss of volatile oil that can occur when cinnamon is pre ground.

Mix one part ground cinnamon and seven parts granulated sugar and mix thoroughly. Sprinkle on toast, cinnamon buns, baked apples, leftover pie crusts trimmings, and more.

To make a simple cinnamon oil simmer on part ground cinnamon in four parts oil for about five minutes. Cool and strain though a coffee filter, add a few cinnamon sticks to the storage jar if desired. Used cinnamon oil as a flavoring for candies, for general flavoring purpose, sent potpourri and even soap.

 

Cinnamon has been shown to have a number of medical properties by scientific studies. These include:

• Antioxidant- The oil in cinnamon helps protect cells from damage by free radicals that can cause disease and ageing. Add a little extra cinnamon for flavor and reap some of the benefits of the antioxidants that we all need.
• Carminative- Cinnamon helps relieve the digestive system excess gas.
• Antispasmodic- helps calm muscle spasms.
• Antibacterial- Cinnamon oil kills or inhibits the grow of many types of bacteria. This appears to be especially true of bacteria that cause oral infections like the ones caused by Candida. This antibacterial action explains why cinnamon is a common ingredient in mouthwash, it is not just for flavor!
• Antifungal- Cinnamon oil can even be helpful in the treatment of parasitic fungal infections.

Our high quality 2x ground cinnamon is made exclusively from the inner bark of the cinnamon tree. This makes it almost twice the strength of the ordinary ground cinnamon found at supermarkets.