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Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a flowering plant surrounded by the genus Sesamum
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SESAME SEED
Description
Sesame is the dried, oval-shaped seed of the herb Sesamum indicum. Sesame Seed is harvest by hand. The seed have a rich nut-like flavor when toasted. Sesame Seed contains 25 percent protein.
Uses
Sesame Seeds are used to make a payment texture and flavor to a variety of breads, rolls, crackers, and salad dressings. Middle Eastern, Muslim, and Asian seasoning blends use crushed, unbroken, and toasted Sesame Seeds for flavor and texture.
Origins
Most of the Sesame Seed sold in the United States is grown surrounded by Mexico, Central America and China.
Folklore
Sesame seed may be the oldest condiment particular to man and probably was the first crop grown for its delicious oil. The Babylonians made sesame cake, wine, and brandy and used the oil for cooking and toiletries. Sesame be used by the Egyptians as a medicine as untimely as 1500 B.C. "Open Sesame" was the magical password that open the entrance to the cave surrounded by Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. This reference is probably attributable to the fact that ripe sesame kernel pods open next to a sharp pop at the slightest touch. Late in the 17th and 18th centuries, slaves brought the pip to America. In some parts of the South, it is still known, as "benne," which be its name surrounded by the African (Bantu) dialect.
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SESAMUM INDICUM L. - SESAME SEED.
Sesamum indicum - sesame Common name: sesame kernel, benne seed, til, sim sim, abongra.
Family: pedaliaceae (unicorn plant family).
Sim sim is an erect tropical annual, ingenious from Africa, but also found abundantly within Suriname; it is growing up to 6 feet towering.
Sesame Seed History
From Peggy Trowbridge,
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Sesame seed date back more than 5,000 years
Sesame seed are believed to be one of the first condiments as well as one of the first plants to be used for pleasant oil.
Sesame kernel history
The English term sesame traces fund to the Arabic simsim, Coptic semsem, and and early Egyptian semsent (the latter man listed surrounded by the Ebers Papyrus, a 65-feet-long scroll listing ancient herb and spices discovered by the famous German Egyptologist, Ebers).
The earliest record use of a spice - sesame seed - comes from an Assyrian myth which claims that the god drank sesame wine the night back they created the earth.
Sesamum indicum, (indicum gist from India) is native to the East Indies.
Usage date back to 3000 B.C. Over 5,000 years ago, the Chinese burned sesame grease not only as a night light source but also to make soot for their ink-blocks.
African slaves brought sesame seed, which they called benné seed, to America, where they become a popular ingredient in Southern dishes.
Through the ages, the seed have be a source of food and oil. Sesame core oil is still the basic source of fat used within cooking in the Near and Far East.
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Sesame seeds are inside the shells that are from the middle of sunflowers. You should try the BBQ flavour ones, I'm addicted.
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Just had to comment on the human being who said that Sesame Seeeds come from the seeds inside sunflowers.
off the side of strawberrys.
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