Cinnamon Food and/or Medicine?

Hot Mulled Cider

1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of allspice (whole)
1 teaspoon of cloves (whole)
1/4 teaspoon of salt
Dash of ground nutmeg
One 3 inch stick cinnamon
2 quarts of apple cider
Orange wedges

1. For diarrhea, mix 1 to 3 tsp Cinnamon into 1cup hot water and steep for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain & drink.

2. A sprinkling of cinnamon can be a quick fix for a small cut. It may not only stop the sting, but help it heal faster too. Wash the cut thoroughly, pat dry, and sprinkle with powdered cinnamon before bandaging. A recent study confirms that cinnamon has natural antibacterial effects and is a natural anesthetic.

3. Sprinkle Cinnamon in with coffee grounds before brewing.

4. Sprinkle on chicken noodle soup for added flavor and instant cold remedy.

5. Mix in with hot cereals.

6. Sprinkle on frozen vanilla yogurt or ice cream.

7. Mix in with regular vanilla yogurt (not frozen) and eat plain or use as a topping for pancakes, bagels, etc.

8. Top a cinnamon-raisin Bagel with vanilla yogurt mixed with cinnamon and place on baking sheet in toaster oven or broiler. Tastes like a frosted cinnamon roll!

9. Room Freshener: Combine 1 tsp Watkins Coconut Extract, 1 tsp Cinnamon, 1 tsp Orange Peel and 1 tsp Allspice. Simmer on low or set jar on register for nice fragrance throughout the house.

10. Put Cinnamon around plants to kill mold.

11. Combine Cinnamon with chocolate when making chocolate cake, puddings or hot chocolate.

12. Cinnamon flavors mashed pumpkin, winter squash or sweet potatoes.

13. Add 1 tsp Cinnamon with dry cream and instant coffee, put in the blender with hot water and drink.

14. Slice apples, put them in a plastic bag and add 1 tbl. Cinnamon and shake. Taste the sweetness!

15. Use on fish before frying, it helps eliminate odor.

16. Put Cinnamon on stored potatoes to keep potatoes from sprouting.

17. Mix with sugar and put in an empty Spice Jar with shaker for cinnamon toast.

18. If doing a pie crust in the microwave, use cinnamon on your fingers when crimping edge. The crust will look browned and have a good taste.

19. Mix Cinnamon with baking soda and use as a carpet freshener before vacuuming.

20. Make Baked Apples by sprinkling halved apples with a little brown sugar & Cinnamon. Microwave 1-2 minutes or just until tender.

21. For your Holiday beverages, add a dollop of whipped cream sprinkled & tinted with Cinnamon.

22. Dust your hamburger roll or bun very lightly with Cinnamon. Tastes Great!

23. Fruit on the grill…grill fresh slices of apples, peaches or pineapple and before serving, sprinkle with a dash of Cinnamon or Nutmeg or a splash of Vanilla.

24. Cinnamon is particularly good with lamb in Indian curries and various Greek dishes. Use it in beef stews & chili. Try it with grains such as rice pilaf, couscous and pearl barley as well as legumes like lentils and split peas.

25. Cinnamon Scents – 6 oz. Cinnamon, 2 1.2 oz. Nutmeg, 16 oz. Applesauce. Combine all ingredients; roll between waxed paper to desired thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. Let air dry, turning daily to prevent warping. In hot weather cover to prevent drying too fast. While Cinnamon Scents are drying, punch a small hole in the top to later tie a small ribbon or yarn for hanging.

thanks for the info, I did know all of that, and also thanks for all the wonderful ideas and uses for cinnamon!

April--you are a dream come true and I hope you will let me use the recipes on my healing food and spices web site.

www.healingfoodandspices.com

Jodi, you're a dream too--thanks for reading anc commenting.

I had read that cinnamon was good for certain things, but did not know it was that good. Thanks for the info! Thanks April also for all those ideas!

Wow, what a lot of great ideas!

Years ago, when our middle daughter was in kindergarten, she brought home a cinnamon Christmas ornament that she had made with applesauce. We kept it in a zipper bag between holidays, and the scent lasted for about 13 years!

Thanks for the tips. A 10 coming your way.

thank you I did not know that

This is good to hear. I love cinnamon.

Thanks, I sprinkle it on pork and chicken now and then.

We are commanded every year to make our wassail.
1 galon of cloudy apple cider
4 cinnamon sticks
small handful of whole cloves
frozen orange juice about three large serving spoons full
frozen lemonade about 1 1/2 large serving spoon fulls.

The orange juice and lemonade is strickly up to your taste. It is just a suggestion.
Put all of this in a stock pot or large dutch oven and heat to simmer. Stir and enjoy.
We put it in the cider jug and warm cups as we go after the inital drinking.
Remember you can always add more of the orange juice or lemonade but you can't take it out so try a little less at first.

Mary, I knew a lot of this already but not all.
April, thank you for the ideas.

good 2 know

I know several people who take cinnamon capsules daily for the health benefits. I like to add cinnamon to the ground coffee before perking it. It gives it a good flavor.

I used cinnamon a lot in my effort to lose weight and control my diabeties, I now no longer need diabetic medication . There is something about cinnamon that keeps sugar absorbtion down, and I happen to love the flavor. Am now on the Cheerios Challenge for
lowering your cholesterol, and anyone can join it, you get a $1.00 coupon off any size box of cheerios , I have had five so far, and my favorite flavor is Apple Cinnamon, go get some,
I think it is at www.cheerioschallange.com. I don't know if it is still running but give it a go, I just looked at the box and you will get a coupon for $1.00 for six weeks which you download from your computer, and you know what, I love them.

Totally helpful and addictive--I use it in coffee and burn it as incense--I steep it for tea and put it in ground beef for a fabulous 'pasticchio' recipe (hope I spelled that greek dish properly) and knowing the quality of the scent and its healing properties, I am grateful my usage has been confirmed by you, "that yes it is good for us !"

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love cinnamon .... unfortunately, cannot have the scent too heavy in the air near me as it triggers my asthma ..... but it is a treat to be able to catch a whiff [from a distance] every now and then .....

as always, Mary ..... you have a very informed column and many good friends to suggest more ..... keep up the good work, all .....

I took your advice about cinnamon, a month or so ago, when I had a bit of a cough, and pain in my chest.
After just a sprinkling of cinnamon in my food, I felt instantly better.
Thanks so much.

thanks for the info

I also read on the Alzheimer's board, people with AD took capsuls and regained some cognitive thinking. This is from folks with begining alzheimer's, saying they were able to play a mind game that they had lost the cognitive ability to play. I found this very informative.

I love fresh cinnamon. I grate it fresh for much better flavor.
I also chew cinnamon sticks/ I quite smokeing in June and chewing on fresh cinnamon pieces have really helped me / every year we make the cinn/nutmeg/applesauce decorations/ and attach them the as name cards on the gifts/

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Great info!