Saffron Shortbread
Buttery shortbread fingers tinted and scented with 25 saffron threads bloomed in cream, baked slow and cut while hot.
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Saffron Recipes
Field notes from a saffron house: how to tell real saffron from dyed, what Super Negin actually means, the Afghan tea ritual, and the dishes worth spending threads on — qabuli pulao, sholeh zard, sheer yakh. Start with the saffron ritual, check our lab results, or go straight to the crystal collection.
Saffron Cheesecake
A baked cheesecake with 30 saffron threads bloomed in warm cream, cooked low in a water bath and chilled overnight.
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Twelve pull-apart saffron dinner rolls with a tangzhong crumb and 0.2 g of saffron bloomed in warm milk.
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Saffron Buns (Lussekatter)
Sixteen soft lussekatter made with 0.4 g of ground saffron steeped in warm milk and quark in the dough.
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Saffron Focaccia
An overnight focaccia with 40 saffron threads bloomed into the dough water, baked crisp in a well-oiled pan.
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Everything in the journal comes back to the same bottles: single-origin Herati Super Negin, single-origin and harvest-dated.
For giving
The Crystal Bottle — 1 g
One gram of Super Negin in a crystal keepsake bottle. About 60 cups of tea.
$14.99About 60 cups of tea
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For the ritual
The Gift Box
Two crystal bottles in a gold-foiled gift box — one to give, one to keep.
$27.991 g + teacup & saucer
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For the kitchen
The Connoisseur Jar — 5 g
For the kitchen that cooks with saffron, not around it.
$44.99$12.00/g
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