FabulousFusionFood's Spice Guide for Musk Mallow Seeds Home Page

Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Spice guide to Musk Mallow Seeds along with all the Musk Mallow Seeds containing recipes presented on this site, with 10 recipes in total.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain as a major flavouring.
Musk Mallow, Abelmoschus moschatus (also known as Abelmosk, Ambrette seeds, Annual hibiscus, Bamia Moschata, Galu Gasturi, Muskdana, Musk mallow, Musk okra, Musk seeds, Ornamental okra, Rose mallow seeds, Tropical jewel hibiscus, Yorka okra; syn. Hibiscus abelmoschus L) is an aromatic and medicinal flowering plant and a member of the Malvaceae (Mallow) family. Though native to India, the plant is frost-tolerant and its large, bold, flowers have made it an increasingly popular garden plant. The plant is a tropical weedy shrub that is annual or biennial in habit and typically grows from 0.5 to 2.5m tall with a long, slender taproot. The leaves are very variable, with the lower ones lower suborbicular in outline, cordate, lower or palmately 3-7 lobed, upper narrower, hastate or sagittate at the base with linear-oblong or triangular lobes. The flowers are regular, bisexual, involucral bracts 8-12, hairy. Typically they are bright yellow in colour with a purple centre, though cultivars with pink to purple flowers have been developed.
Once fertilized the flowers develop into a fruit capsule that is fulvous hairy, oblong lanceolate, acute. The seeds within the capsule are subreniform and blackish.
Much of the plant is edible, in common with other mallows. It should be not ed that Abelmoschus moschatus is a close relative of okra and the unripe fruit pods of musk mallow can be cooked and eaten in a very similar way to okra. The leaves and young shoots can be cooked and eaten as vegetables or can be substituted for melokhia (Jew's mallow) in African-style soups and stews.
It is the seeds, however, that are the spice component of the plant and have a sweet, flowery, heavy fragrance similar to that of musk. Today they are most commonly used as a flavouring additive to coffee, but can be used as a flavour base for confectionary, biscuits and cakes as well as some savoury dishes. During Stuart times, it was used as a cheaper alternative to animal musk in flavouring spiced wines, such as hyppocras.
The seeds are also processed in perfumery to yield Ambrette oil which is used as a substitute for must. Analysis of the seeds have revelaed the presence of the following aromatics: myricetin-3-glucoside and a glycoside of cyanidin, beta-sitosteral and its beta-D-glucoside, myricetin and its glucoside. beta-sitosterol has also been extracted from the fruit husks. It is the myricetin and its derivatives that give the seeds their distinctive musk-like flavour and fragrance. The seeds also contain musky smelling macrocyclic lactone compounds.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain as a major flavouring.
Musk Mallow, Abelmoschus moschatus (also known as Abelmosk, Ambrette seeds, Annual hibiscus, Bamia Moschata, Galu Gasturi, Muskdana, Musk mallow, Musk okra, Musk seeds, Ornamental okra, Rose mallow seeds, Tropical jewel hibiscus, Yorka okra; syn. Hibiscus abelmoschus L) is an aromatic and medicinal flowering plant and a member of the Malvaceae (Mallow) family. Though native to India, the plant is frost-tolerant and its large, bold, flowers have made it an increasingly popular garden plant. The plant is a tropical weedy shrub that is annual or biennial in habit and typically grows from 0.5 to 2.5m tall with a long, slender taproot. The leaves are very variable, with the lower ones lower suborbicular in outline, cordate, lower or palmately 3-7 lobed, upper narrower, hastate or sagittate at the base with linear-oblong or triangular lobes. The flowers are regular, bisexual, involucral bracts 8-12, hairy. Typically they are bright yellow in colour with a purple centre, though cultivars with pink to purple flowers have been developed.
Once fertilized the flowers develop into a fruit capsule that is fulvous hairy, oblong lanceolate, acute. The seeds within the capsule are subreniform and blackish.
Much of the plant is edible, in common with other mallows. It should be not ed that Abelmoschus moschatus is a close relative of okra and the unripe fruit pods of musk mallow can be cooked and eaten in a very similar way to okra. The leaves and young shoots can be cooked and eaten as vegetables or can be substituted for melokhia (Jew's mallow) in African-style soups and stews.
It is the seeds, however, that are the spice component of the plant and have a sweet, flowery, heavy fragrance similar to that of musk. Today they are most commonly used as a flavouring additive to coffee, but can be used as a flavour base for confectionary, biscuits and cakes as well as some savoury dishes. During Stuart times, it was used as a cheaper alternative to animal musk in flavouring spiced wines, such as hyppocras.
The seeds are also processed in perfumery to yield Ambrette oil which is used as a substitute for must. Analysis of the seeds have revelaed the presence of the following aromatics: myricetin-3-glucoside and a glycoside of cyanidin, beta-sitosteral and its beta-D-glucoside, myricetin and its glucoside. beta-sitosterol has also been extracted from the fruit husks. It is the myricetin and its derivatives that give the seeds their distinctive musk-like flavour and fragrance. The seeds also contain musky smelling macrocyclic lactone compounds.
The alphabetical list of all Musk Mallow Seeds recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 10 recipes in total:
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Caramel Musk Muffins (Caramel Musk Muffins) Origin: Britain | Musk-Vanilla Ice Cream Origin: Britain | Red Musk Candy Origin: American |
Golden Cinnamon and Musk Brioche Loaves Origin: France | Musky Honey Wings Origin: Britain | To make an excellent aromaticall Hyppocras Origin: Britain |
Iced Cinnamon and Musk Rolls Origin: Britain | Naples Bisket Origin: Britain | |
Musk Apple Cake Origin: Jewish | Orange Musk French Toast Origin: American |
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