SAFFRON AT HOME FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

Crocus longiflorus stigmas were being employed for saffron in Sicily. Crocus thomasii stigmas had been used to flavour dishes around Taranto, South Italy. In Syria the stigmas of an unidentified wild species were collected by Ladies and children, Sunshine-dried and pressed into small tablets which have been offered in the Bazaars.[85] Not all histo