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fransmom · 12/08/2007 23:07

how on earth do i prepare one????????

had a dessert that had something on the side which looked like a star, so that's what i assumed it was! it was very nice so would like to try one. i actuallly bought one but didn't have a clue what to do with it!

mtia x

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fransmom · 12/08/2007 23:11

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fransmom · 13/08/2007 22:33

anyone?

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B3CCY · 13/08/2007 23:45

hiya

presume you mean star anise?

not quite sure if you eat them as they are,
I thought they were just a dried fruit that was used as a spice to flavour dishes, I know that it's one of the spices that you get in chinese five spice.

Jamie Oliver does a nice plum and star anise duck dish in his cookbook Jamies Dinners

Have you tried to find a recipe online?

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fransmom · 14/08/2007 23:05

kind of like this but yellow

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WendyWeber · 14/08/2007 23:10

We have used it in fruit salad but ages ago and forgot how - have googled and got this - it says just wash and slice.

Nice and easy then

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j20baby · 14/08/2007 23:21

i'm pretty sure you need to somehow peel them first. we used to have them as kids, but can't remember properly how my mum prepared them!

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pointydog · 14/08/2007 23:34

made a christmas fruit salad with it few years back. Just wash and slice, don't peel.

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BirdyArms · 14/08/2007 23:46

Agree that you just slice them, no need to peel. Remember the excitement the first time we had them in the late eighties, never reakky took off in a big way though!

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BirdyArms · 14/08/2007 23:46

Agree that you just slice them, no need to peel. Remember the excitement the first time we had them in the late eighties, never reakky took off in a big way though!

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fransmom · 15/08/2007 12:49

thanks for that wendyweber! def nice and easy.

and thanks to you too birdyarms

and thanks to you too birdyarms