Word Finder - saffron

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The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.

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A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.

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• kesar

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An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.

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• saffron yellow

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To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.

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saffroned water, saffroned rice.

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To give a saffron colour to (something).

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To embellish.

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Having an orange-yellow colour.

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The saffron robe of a Buddhist monk.

The Blackwater in Essex, which rises near Saffron Walden, has a course of about 40 m.

Saffron is grown and exported.

The country around is flat and fertile, producing much wine, dates, oranges, oil, saffron and aniseed.

Saffron was used as an ingredient in many of the complicated medicines of early times.

Next, via country lanes to saffron Waldon, a village once famed for growing saffron.

It is surrounded by a fertile plain, and has considerable trade in saffron and agricultural produce.

Caravans from Sus laden with copper-ware, olive oil, butter, saffron, wax, skins, dates, dried roses, &c., are sent to Marrakesh, four days' journey from Tarudant.

MyRecipes include over 50 magazine recipes that make use of saffron.

Among other important productions of the Ottoman Empire are sesame, coleseed, castor oil, flax, hemp, aniseed, mohair, saffron, olive oil, gums, scammony and liquorice.

Good saffron has a deep orange-red colour; if it is light yellow or blackish, it is bad or too old.

Tofieldia, an arctic and alpine genus of small herbs with a slender scape springing from a tuft of narrow ensiform leaves and bearing a raceme of small green flowers; Narthecium (bog-asphodel), herbs with a habit similar to Tofieldia, but with larger golden-yellow flowers; and Colchicum, a genus with about 30 species including b the meadow saffron or autumn crocus (C. autumnale).

German residents are found mainly in the western and west central districts; French mainly in the City of Westminster (especially the district of Soho), St Pancras and St Marylebone; Italians in Holborn (Saffron Hill), Soho and Finsbury; and Russians and Poles in Stepney and Bethnal Green.

Aquila has some trade in lace and saffron, and possesses other smaller industries.

Manzanares has manufactures of soap, bricks and pottery, and an active trade in wheat, wine, spirits, aniseed and saffron.

You can purchase saffron as pure "threads" or as powder.

Wheat and other cereals are cultivated, with fruits of many kinds, olives, and vines which yield a wine of fair quality; while saffron is largely produced, and some attention is given to the keeping of bees and silkworms. Stock-farming, for which the wide plains afford excellent opportunities, employs many of the peasantry; the bulls of Albacete are in demand for bull-fighting, and the horses for mounting the Spanish cavalry.

From Mongolia come leather, saddlery, sheep and horses, with coral, amber and small diamonds from European sources; from Kham perfumes, fruits, furs and inlaid metal saddlery; from Sikkim and Bhutan rice, musk, sugar-balls and tobacco; from Nepal broadcloth, indigo, brasswork, coral, pearls, sugar, spices, drugs and Indian manufactures; from Ladak saffron, dried fruits and articles from India.

Usually they are of a different colour, and may be black, brown, yellowish, or also less frequently rose-coloured, rusty-red, orange-reddish, saffron, or of various intermediate shades.

He resigned the great seal on the 21st of April 1544, and died on the 30th, being buried at Saffron Walden, where he had prepared for himself a splendid tomb.

The most important vegetable productions are - cereals, cotton, gum tragacanth, liquorice, olive oil, opium, rice, saffron, salep, tobacco and yellow berries.

The crops principally raised are wheat and maize, though here, as well as in other parts of the government, barley, flax, tobacco, water-melons, gourds, fruit, wine, saffron and madder are grown.

He murmurs to himself like a painter who has found the right color - lemon and saffron delight him lime is his lucky mascot.

Auburn hues Soaked saffron strands and its soaking liquid lend delicate streaks of color and flavor to fluffy boiled rice.

Falafel, and the saffron rice are favorites among regulars.

Of plants used for dyeing, the principal are bastard saffron, madder, woad and the indigo plant.

The culture of saffron was the most characteristic industry at Walden from the reign of Edward III.

The trade is mainly in these products and in wine and saffron.

The environs are occupied by vineyards, gardens and orchards, in which madder, saffron and tobacco, as well as figs, peaches, pears and other fruits, are cultivated.

The hill-sides were clothed with vine and fir, and the rich broad plain of Hermus produced large quantities of corn and saffron.

My own face might have been pretty cheery with the splendid sea bass, fennel and cherry tomatoes served with saffron aioli £ 10.90.

You may add cardamom, saffron or rose essence if you prefer a classic Indian flavor.

The food is top notch, with exquisite treats like Bayonne ham and figs or poached cod with saffron and chili.

Monorail ticket Cheats Go to Saffron City and talk to the girl copycat.

But don't expect ot see crocuses in Saffron Waldon in Essex.

Cornish Saffron buns are made with yeast and include currants and candied peel.

Little Warden's control tower A slight detour led us to the site of Little Walden, near Saffron Walden.

My steamed halibut came on a bed of creamy risotto flavored with spring onions and with a sauce made from mussels infused with saffron.

They gave up their possessions, put on a saffron robe, shaved their head, and became mendicants or wandering monks.

Notable starters were the Irish rock oysters and the scallops with truffle oil or Saffron sauce.

Other uncommon plants include meadow saffron, saw-wort and herb Paris.

When ready to serve, divide the saffron pilaf between two plates, and top each with a chicken skewer and some raita.

Additional side dishes are available at extra cost but we found the accompanying puy lentils and kale and the saffron rice perfectly adequate.

It came with a creamy risotto whose yellow flavor did not offer an empty promise, it really tasted of saffron.

On the day I was there, the younger monks, some wearing their saffron robes, were playing football against the local traders.

Remove from heat, and add the remaining liquid saffron.

Our recipe is a luxurious recipe that includes crushed organic saffron.

I saw an American (a rarity in Dubai) who had bought some saffron being pressed to buy more.

The seed taken in wine with a little saffron removes obstruction of the liver and is good for the yellow jaundice.

In autumn the meadows bloom once more, this time with meadow saffron - a plant associated with ancient grasslands.

Pan-fried scallops were overpowered by their bed of broad bean mash, which in turn swamped the accompanying saffron dressing.