Sacha writes
On 2009-12-28 23:03:05 +0000, K said:

Sacha writes
I add one to a beef casserole, too - it just adds a certain
something.
Good with any rich casserole - venison, game, anything where you've
added spicy sausage or black pudding. It's a very common ingredient of
northern portuguese cooking.

I enjoy the scent of it cooking, too.

Try pruning a large one! You can have enough of even the nicest scent
;-)
--
Kay

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On 2009-12-28 23:16:31 +0000, "Ophelia" said:



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On 2009-12-28 21:41:28 +0000, "graham" said:


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On 2009-12-27 20:34:56 +0000, K said:

Sacha writes
If it makes you think of bread sauce

How do you make your bread sauce? I've always made it with cloves.

Bay is for rice puddings and casseroles.

I *always* add a bay leaf to bread sauce.
--
So do I! I've introduced bread sauce (I was going to use the initials
but
thought better of it) to several Canadians who love it!
Graham

I add one to a beef casserole, too - it just adds a certain something.

a certain... je nes se quoi...?

IACBTP g

-- https://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

I Am Caught By The Pudding....??

I Am Completely Batty - Toodle Pip?? ;-)
I Also Can Bake Treacle Pudding?
.....can't think of anything else printable at the moment :-)

"David WE Roberts" wrote in message
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We have a laurel/bay bush in our back garden (which is actually a tree
which has been cut down to a stump and then regrown as a bush).

I have some other bushes in tubs but they have a different scent and I
particularly like the one in our back garden.

However it may have to go because it is really in the wrong place for our
redesigned rear area.
Obviously being a truncated tree it cannot be lifted and moved.

http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_bay_laurel.htm makes it sound quite
difficult to propagate (however as they can't even get their
Farenheit/Centigrade conversions right I don't know how much to trust
them).

Of the three options, I don't see any seeds and layering may take too long
(although air layering is not mentioned, which might be an option) so
cuttings seems to be the best bet.

Has anyone had success taking cuttings from bay?

How do I tell which type of bay it is?
The web site above describes it as a bush but the trunk was pretty big and
the bay trees around this area seem to be just that - trees.
My other bays have grown from seedlings lifted from a friend's garden and
his bay tree is huge.

Cheers

Dave R
Try this for identification:
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Laur_nob.html

Useful site for the gourmands among us!
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html
Graham