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Looking for the correct name and the name of the plant that Collethies(sp) come from. Collethies (sp) are a small brown seed used by the lithuanians to make sausage and keilbasa. It is the seed from a weed.plant that grows int he wild...

John

Looking on google - the only spice that seems to be in all of the Lituanian recipes is Allspice. kvapusis pipiras?

Hope this helps.

Phil

I have searched google and tried different spellings, nothing... nada... zip

Yes, I found that as well!

The point I was making is that virtually all the sausage recipes online for Lithuanian Sausage only contain Allspice as the main flavour.

Maybe an email to the site owner of http://www.wedlinydomowe.com/ might provide a solution? He is a great authority on sausages from this part of the world.

Phil

All spice is a berry about the size of a juniper berry. Having had a hunt around I think your collethies is quite likely caraway seed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caraway

Dave

FWIW this would appear to be paprastasis kmynas in Lithuanian.

Phil

That doesn't sound much like what flipper was looking for does it, Phil. flipper do you have an idea what sort of flavour you're looking for in this spice? I see caraway, dill and mustard seed are all used in Lithuanian cooking (in that order of popularity)

Dave

Edit: I assume this is you flipper, posting elsewhere? I thought for a second I might have found an answer for you...

"flper
Looking for info on Collethies, a lithuanian spice used in sausage making; It is the seed of a local plant, I am looking for the name of the plant it comes from and the proper name of the spice; Collethies is a coal region slang;"

Yes, that was post.

I cannot explain the flavor it adds to the sausage. I made it with them and with out and there is a difference. It is not caraway, I will take a picture and post it tonight. The seeds are small, very small.. a 10lb recipe calls for 1 tbsp.

Thanks for the responses...

john

Collethies is slang and the proper name is something like siess (sp)...

Pictures would be great, I forgot to welcome you to the forum, Welcome

Dave

Thank you...

Alot of good info here. We make between 200-300lbs of venison sausage/Kilbo a year. Always looking for new recipes.


John

Lithuanians will also sometimes use coriander seeds in their sausages. I wonder....

The only one I can find here that looks possible is anise seed:

Any�ius, Any�inė o�ia�olė, Any�ių sėklos

Would the Any�ius be pronounces siess? And, is anise used in Lithuanian sausage?

Phil

Just to add - forum member IngredientSeller is in Lithuania may be they could help?

Phil

Interesting, because caraway is supposed to have an anise element to it.

If I get a chance I'll bring ingredientseller's attention to this thread

Dave