URGENT HELP - HERB/SPICE CUPBOARD

[Washersaurus]

How do I identify ground coriander from the other 20 unlabelled jars in my cupbard?

It's medium-dark brown and the smell is not particularly distinctive.
If it smells of curry it's probably cumin.

so it isn't paleish brown?

maybe....

oops

problem is I've now narrowed it down to 2 jars that could be coriander..but I can't tell which it is .

Has it got a spicy smell/taste at all? I've got one that has a slight spiciness about it and one that is paler that smells of nothing much

Yes, it should smell spicy.

How pale is the pale one? Could that be ginger?

The other one doesn't smell of anything really (I AM useless at identifying herbs) but I don't think it is ginger as there is a labelled jar of that in there too.

This is DH's idea of sorting the cupboards; putting it all in jars with no flipping labels.

I'm just going to randomly choose one I think and see how it turns out

if they don't smell of much then they are probably a bit old and therefore won't taste of much either - therefore you can't go too wrong!

I don't think they are old, the cupboard has only recently been 'sorted'.

I used the one I thought most likely to be coriander given the images kathy linked to . The meal was OK so maybe I got it right this time.

Thank you for your help. I will have to have another word with DH about the labelling; it is enough trying to prepare a meal with a 2yo and a 7mo at my heels without having to play guess the herb/spice!