Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
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It is sometimes flavoured with anise seeds, or topped with sesame seeds.
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Sponge, drop cakes, anise cakes, etc., are better baked on floured pans.
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Roughly pound the star anise and cinnamon with a mortar and pestle.
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Its anise-and-coriander fire numbed her throat enough to let the words free.
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Soak the chillis in warm water with the star anise for 30 minutes.
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Anisette, a liquor made from the oil of anise -fromseeds of the anise plant.