G-Powder ????

Swan_2

Simba_25 wrote:

thank you! much appreciated

hmmm wonder if my saffron is actually saffron then lol

I'll do my best, I'll be going through friends of a friend & the English/Swahili barrier & dealing with 'African Time' (a manyana kinda thing) so it could take some time

you should be able to tell by the smell of it, I was about to buy a huge bag of it before I smelled it. it doesn't seem to be a con thing, it seems that in Kenya anyway, they call a certain kind of turmeric saffron. I Googled it from the ingredient list printed on a sachet I brought back in a set for a friend.
yours is from Zanzibar, it might well be the genuine article

Zanzibar trivia ... as well as being famous for spices, Zanzibar has a very distinctive musical tradition called Taarab, a kind of Arabic/African blend orchestral sound, wonderful stuff

Ted_Hutchinson

The Spices which are produced in Zanzibar are listed Here
The selection you have
yellow and red curry powder
cinnemon
saffron
cloves
dried hot chillies
black peppercorns
coriander
sesame
then this G/powder
are all very basic spices which no well stocked spice rack should be without.
The one common Zanzibar spice which is missing from your selection which I would expect to be present in a basic spice selection is GINGER which of course can be sold as Powder.
I would risk tasting it and I'll bet this will solve the mystery.

As an aside the google searching for mystery spices did turn up this interesting research on the Aphrodisiac effects of nutmeg and clove

Swan_2

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

The one common Zanzibar spice which is missing from your selection which I would expect to be present in a basic spice selection is GINGER which of course can be sold as Powder.
I would risk tasting it and I'll bet this will solve the mystery.

that makes perfect sense Ted, I'm sure you're right

Simba_25

The thanks button is missing from your post Ted but Thank you! Certainly makes sense..... i will be trying it later to see if your right thanks again

JMB5037

I received a similar spice boat. When this message thread could not tell me what G Powder is, I opened it and smelled and tasted it. It is clearly Ginger. btw, I thought I was getting large bags of spice. They were cleverly packaged, They are thin packets barely enough for a meal. ...but they were free and I never heard of red curry.