Cardamom is one of those spices that you receive when you get a gift box of spices.   I have never been sure what to do with it, as it wasn’t something my mother or grandmother used on a regular basis.

But I became curious as to what its uses were when I looked in my spice cupboard and saw four containers of the spice. Naturally the freshness of these spices came into question and I hesitated to use them before knowing anything about them.   That is the “thing” about spices—you really should know something about them before putting them on food.