{"id":9567,"date":"2011-02-03T02:26:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2011-02-03T02:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T09:26:30","slug":"im-just-mad-about-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/im-just-mad-about-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m just Mad about Saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Crocus by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4445434130\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4445434130_fa1be8822c.jpg\" alt=\"Crocus\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A costly spice Saffron is made from the stamen of Crocus sativus. Used as a Chinese medicine, in food and as a dye, saffron has been used since medieval times. It has been cultivated by Greeks, Romans and Chinese for 3500 years and is now a cash crop in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Spain.<\/p>\n<h2>Description of Saffron<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Crocus sativus throws up a spear of green leaves only after flowering.<\/li>\n<li> The fiery red-yellow, orange stamen are collected and dried to make saffron.<\/li>\n<li> There are only 3 stigma to a flower so it takes 100,000 blooms to make a pound of saffron.<\/li>\n<li> &#8216;The saffron flowers blow in September; but leaves come not forth till the spring&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 from Culpeper&#8217;s Complete Herbal 1653.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Uses of Saffron<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Saffron was used as a medicine for digestion, circulation and heart problems but overdoses could lead to death.<\/li>\n<li>Saffron is bitter sweet and has a pungent aroma and can be used whole, as a powder or in an infusion.<\/li>\n<li>Saffrons main culinary uses are in colouring rice, fish stew and paella.<\/li>\n<li>Saffron Walden was the centre of the UK production even changing the name of the town to recognise the fact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The photograph is of a hybrid crocus not a sativus. The video is not of sativus but Donovan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCCjv2OiTxE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A costly spice Saffron is made from the stamen of Crocus sativus. Used as a Chinese medicine, in food and as a dye, saffron has been used since medieval times. It has been cultivated by Greeks, Romans and Chinese for 3500 years and is now a cash crop in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Spain. Description of Saffron Crocus sativus throws up a spear of green leaves only after flowering. The fiery red-yellow, orange stamen are collected and dried to make saffron&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/im-just-mad-about-saffron\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}