UPDATE: You can find the recipe for these saffron cantuccini here!
Last week, I mentioned how saffron buns taste of medicine. What I should have said is that anything made of saffron tastes slightly medicinal. Why? Well, it has been used as a medicine for centuries… And not only is it famous for its bitter taste, but it is also the world’s most precious and expensive spice. You need to ‘harvest’ 75,000 Saffron flowers in order to produce a pound of saffron. And yes – it’s all done by hand!
The cold dark months over here in Sweden are saffron months – symbolized by the bright yellowness of saffron buns. And in our household, we have another saffron tradition (a year round one, I might add): the consumption of saffron cantuccini. Sir Pe got the recipe from a couple who run a Bed and Breakfast in England.
You need an apron and ear plugs if you’re going to make this recipe with noisy kitchen helpers anklebiters! After a lot of stirring and sore wrists, you put the dough in the oven – only to take it out after a short while.
And yes – it’s supposed to look like yellow horse doo-doo. Thank you for asking!
It then goes back into the oven overnight and miraculously turns into sugar-coated cantuccini the following morning!
And because it’s good for the brain, keeps away colds and soothes the nerves, I think I’ll have to eat a few kilos, don’t you?
For purely medicinal purposes.
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I couldn’t agree with you more. REally, I swear…cough
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Oh, you do have a way of getting my attention! What a fun post! And I would love to sample some — even if it does smell like doo doo! Thank you, Lady Fi, you have made my evening — as you frequently do!! Have a great week! Enjoy!
Sylvia
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That looks yummy.
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🙂 So well written. And I get to only see it. Wish I too could sample some.
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Looks like a biscotti- you forgot one thing- the recipe!!!
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seems good enough to try!
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I love those! Saffron risotto is also lovely.
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Hmmm… looks like I’ll have to give you the recipe, so that your fans can try them for themselves!
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I can take my medicine…or yours.
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LadyFi: It does look like a neat concoction. I hope you enjoy it through your cold Winter.
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Looks wonderful. I’d like the recipe too, Sir Pe!
janice.
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they look good…the final product 🙂
please share the receipe with us 🙂
happy new year.
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Sir Pe looks very fetching in his pinny
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all I can focus on are Sir Pe’s apron and the horse poo…. LOL
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Saffron is used a lot here too. Love the striped apron!
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Much better medicine than most of the pills I have seen. I´ll take some of that, thank you!
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I’m still scared.
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Wow, that looks mighty tastey, of course from a medicinal point of view. I saw saffron for sale in Mexico, a very tiny bag for very high price.
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They look better sliced.
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I want couple right now to dip into my latte’ — the finished product looks like really really good biscotti.
And what a funny post! Cool that you share kitchen duties — that’s the way to do it!
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Yum! That looks delicious!
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Åh, såna där är så sjukt goda! Alltså man måste äta många för annars kan man bli sjuk (jo, jag lovar!)… 😉
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This Ozarks farm chick has never had the pleasure of saffron buns but whoa baby, they look great. I may just have to step out of my rut and make some.
Ya’ll have a wonderfully blessed day!!!
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a new way to bake things I guess. Never seen that before. 🙂
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I’ll have some too please!
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Sounds just like the sort of medicine I’d like!
Very impressed with Sir Pe in his apron!
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That kind of looks like biscotti, and very delicious looking it is.
I made some saffron buns the other week, oh my they were good.
We always sold the fall crocus at the nursery, so you could grow your own saffron.
Jen
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Oh, Fi, I love saffron – you’ll have to post the recipe! The biscotti look fabulous – I’d eat one (or 2) with you if I lived closer!
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it actually looks good to eat 😀
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interesting! i didn’t know that 🙂 thanks for sharing
leethroughthelens.blogspot.com
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Does the medicine work?
Is there sugar in this recipe? It looked a little like yellow biscotti.
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I sure wouldn’t turn it down if offered some. I hope to know how that tastes one day. Fun post. I guess if this is like medicine that would make you pharmacists.
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Horse do-doo – haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! I’m sure it tastes and smells nothing of the sort though, right? There is something theraputic to the whole process of baking, don’t you think? I certainly wouldn’t mind giving this a go, glad I popped by.
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And when a food has medicinal properties, it doesn’t have any calories, right?
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Trade you some pecan pie for saffron bread…
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very nice…you did save some to share, right?
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Love a man in an apron..Sir Pe is dashing in one!! looks like he is a great cook! 🙂
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I absolutely love saffron – these look quite like biscotti, are they? I keep meaning to recreate a saffron pasta dish I had in London (at a lovely restaurant near the Albert Hall)… basically a sauce consisting of roast veg, cream, and saffron.
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I gotta try them one day (when I get an oven again, that doesn’t work with Gas…), they look delicious!
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If you like saffron, you will love this rigatoni with braised chicken and saffron cream. It is unbelievable.
http://michaelbeyer.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/rigatoni-with-braised-chicken-and-saffron-cream/
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