EDIT: Do NOT look for Kümmel -- I was sadly mistaken!
I would point you to Kümmel or Kreuzkümmel gemahlen which can be found at a number of shops in Zurich including Jelmoli and Globus. It can be tough to find in Coop and Migros though. Not sure that helps a lot since you live in Lausanne, but it does exist here.
Mind you, Kümmel and Kreuzkümmel are different spices. Kümmel is called, according to google translator caraway, whereas Kreuzkümmel is indeed cumin and can be find either in health shops or in any asian shop.
NO NO NO! Kreuzkümmel is not the same as Kummel !
Please do some research. Here are details on 100 spices.... Gernot Katzer is a professor
in Graz, Austria, and has a very thorough website, and obviously a lot of time on his hands!
He found 51 foreign names for Allspice! http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Pime_dio.html
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/spice_small.html
Cumin (or Kreuzkümmel) is available in Lausanne in Asian shops and Epicerie
http://tel.local.ch/de/q/Lausanne/Epicerie.html
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Or you can find it at Coop...
Coop @ home has 2 variants - one grounded and one whole:
McCormick Kreuzkümmel (FR:Cumin) (ground)
Coop Kreuzkümmer (FR:Grains de cumin)
Sounds interesting and the cake on the picture looks very nice indeed. But half a bottle of brandy rather sound like "spiced Brandy" or "some spices and other stuff added to Brandy"
Triple-M Migros, Globus, and any Indian grocery carry whole cumin seeds -- it's called Kreuzkümmel (not to be confused with ordinary Kümmel which, as others have said, is caraway seed).
I just put cumin seeds in the blender and let them spin for 5 minutes if I need to pulverize a lot (e.g. for chili). Small amounts I just do in a mortar and pestle.
Whole spices keep their flavor better than ground, anyway.
Was at the Christmas Market in Morges tonight. A gentleman from "1000 epices" in Sierre (VS) was there with a stand.
Allspice is called "piment de Jamaïque" in French (Jamaican Spice). He sells it both ground (powder) and regular (you need to grind it like pepper). You just need to specify which one you want. He will ship to you.
Link:
http://www.1000epices.ch/index.php?p...emart&Itemid=1
Happy baking.
Last Christmas I finally found Allspice (piment) at a spice stand at a Christmas market here in Zürich, so that would definitely be the place to look.
As ever, illuminating! Had always wondered about the difference ...
...but on a related subject .. isn't Stir Up Sunday (being the Sunday before Advent??) when you make your Christmas Puds? My understanding is that cakes are much better when made much earlier and "fed" for a few months with brandy ...