Aniseed/Anise

Family name: Umbelliferae Botanical

Name: Pimpinella anisum Culinary

Uses: Delicately sweet and aromatic bouquet with a distinctive liquorice flavour, similar to fennel. Used in sweet and savoury dishes, in breads (such as rye), soups, sauces, biscuits, cakes, confectionery and baking. Wonderful in fish dishes and some sausages and also used in drinks such as pastis and ouzo. Medicinal uses: good for cough and sore throat. Good for digestion and is an antiseptic.