The term was coined by the Daily Mail, and arose due to misplaced rumours that Fowler was dating Spice Girl Emma Bunton.
Strong advice, though I wonder if perhaps we are a little too hasty to write off so-called "out-of-date" spices?
Always use in-date spices, so that they retain their freshness and delightful flavors.
Fold just enough diced peel and choice bigarreau cherries into a batter with chopped dates and spice, however, and watch the tone and texture lighten up.
We enter via the offie (it's not licensed) and the shop itself, with its shelves full of syrupy pastries, odd sweetmeats, dates, fragrant spice pastes, "evil eye window thingies", cookware (aubergine corers, falafel makers, electric samovars) and seemingly hundreds of different flatbreads.
She suggested I date the spices and replace them every three months.
We wandered past stalls filled with trays of sticky dates, bore past spice vendors dwarfed by giant mounds of pungent powders and leaves, and then found a small plaza in the heart of the Suq al-Milhi (the Salt Souk).
The earliest mention of the spice dates back to Egyptian scrolls of 2800 B.C. Like so many other ancient aromatics, juniper was long the subject of folk tales and folk cures.
Then again, there's probably a limited market for figs, dates and exotic spices in Las Vegas.
Whisk the cream into the sugar, add the dates, vanilla and spices, and simmer until the dates soften.
