Kandy ‘Heirloom’ Cinnamon
70g
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Winner of Golden Forks Award 2024
Sweetly aromatic, delicately flavoured, beautifully balanced Cinnamon. Our Golden Fork award-winning Kandy Heirloom Cinnamon quills are for discerning home cooks, chefs & lovers of gastronomy.
Perfect for: Infusing cocktails with elegant depth, brewing in teas or golden milk for comfort & healing, elevating apple tarts, compôtes & crumbles, layering flavour in fragrant curries and slow-cooked stews.
Medagalathura, Sri Lanka
The Sight
Kumara’s lush, evergreen true cinnamon farm sits atop a mountainous hamlet in Ratnapura District, undisturbed & pristine. Indigenous King Coconut trees (known as Thæmbili), giant anthills & papaya tree among others form part of the landscape.
The Sound
The synchronised movements of skilled artisans scraping delicate cinnamon barks sound like a symphony. The outer bark is gently scraped, inner bark loosened and hand-peeled, then elegantly rolled into quills.
The Spice
Slender & brittle in texture, sophisticated & subtle in taste - Only young tender barks are harvested early morning by craftsmen & women using age-old traditions that have been passed on for generations. The quills are slow dried under the shade, naturally.
The Soil & Surrounds
The barks that have been peeled are used for firewood and the scrapings are used for mulching. Freshwater from the mountain gushes beneath the forest floor, a round the clock water resource for the cinnamon trees.
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