Coconut aminos

Coconut Aminos: Umami From Coconut Trees

Origin of coconut aminos Coconut aminos seasoning sauce is a sauce made from the sap or nectar of coconut trees. This is the same sap that is harvested to make coconut sugar and coconut vinegar. The sap has been harvested and used in cooking for centuries. Coconut sap is harvested …

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Peanut Sauce

Peanut Sauce: The South Asian Satay Sauce

Peanut sauce history Peanut sauce is also known as satay sauce and is most often associated with Thai cooking, at least in the West. Peanut sauce and variants of the satay dish are found throughout South Asian cuisine. Indonesian and Malay cuisine both include versions of it and peanut sauce. …

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Liquid aminos

Liquid Aminos: A Source Of Free Amino Acids

Liquid Aminos History Liquid aminos is the name of a condiment made with soybeans. Its appearance is similar to that of soy sauce. The liquid aminos product is made by Bragg Live Food Products, which was founded by Paul Bragg in 1912. The story about Paul Bragg is that as …

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Plum Sauce

Plum Sauce: The Fruity Dipping Sauce

Plum sauce history Plum sauce is a Chinese condiment originally made from a stone fruit referred to as the Chinese plum. This is where it gets tricky as there are multiple plum species called Chinese plums. Prunus mume, Prunus salicina and Eriobotrya japonica are all grown throughout Asia and are …

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Margarine

Margarine: The Original Butter Substitute

Margarine history Margarine was invented in 1869 by a French chemist named Hippolyte Mege-Mouries. His patented process for making margarine involved churning beef tallow and milk. Margarine was created to win a prize offered by Emperor Napoleon III who wanted a cheap butter substitute for his armies and poor French …

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Clarified Butter

Clarified Butter: The French Ghee

Clarified butter history Clarified butter has a long history, but it has not been well documented. So while historians do have some information about the origin of butter, the first person to clarify it is not known. Ghee may well have been the first kind of clarified butter. Ghee originated …

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Butter

Butter: The Ancient Milk-Based Cooking Fat

Butter history Butter has a long history going back thousands of years according to the most popular theory of its origin. Supposedly, a traveler in Africa around 8000 BCE placed milk into a sheepskin bag that he carried on his pack animal. Opening it one day, the traveler discovered that …

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Ghee

Ghee: India’s Clarified Butter

Ghee history Ghee is an Indian invention. It has been in use for thousands of years. Some sources state that it originated about 1800 BCE, others claim that it is far older. There are claims that it was in use as far back as 6500 BCE. Hindus consider ghee to …

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