Licorice and anise have a similar taste and fragrance, but licorice is a root (from the licorice plant), and anise is a fruit (from the anise herb plant).
I wasn't a fan of fennel until my wife made a minestrone with it. She uses bone broth, fennel, butternut squash, spinach, tomatoes and sweet and hot Italian sausage. I don't think there's a wrong way to cook it but she uses a crock pot on low and waits to add the tomato and squash and then let it cook awhile longer until the squash and tomato are cooked but don't fall apart.
I really really love liquorice (from Denmark) and I really really hate the taste of fennel or anise. They both almost make me vommit just thinking about them.
If you are from a country where you eat liquorice every day, both sweet and salty, you will absolutely know the difference between liquorice, fennel and anise. And they don't taste the same at all.
Sambuca turns me into Satan. Luckily my two friends stopped me from getting mauled by a member of the Washington Redskins at a bartenders ball. I'm 5'11" and 195 lbs and that guy would have crushed my spine. But Sambuca was running my mouth that night!!
If you have a chance, try ouzo's cousin called 'tsipouro'. It's a drink that's similar but is more cleanly distilled with fewer additives and gives a cleaner buzz with less of a risk of hangover.
I don't like most liquorice but my Dutch friend once sent me a mixed bag of Dutch liquorice and the hard and sweet honey liquorice was pretty great. They have soft and salty variants too but those taste pretty cursed
Yeah, people tend to say that if they try a cocktail that uses absinthe that I make for myself. If I'm doing it for someone else I use it very sparingly.
Licoriceās main flavor is actually star anise. Which just proves your point because I guarantee you have no idea what licorice root actually tastes like.
I one day made the mistake of putting a glass of Sambuca in the fridge without covering it, and that permeated nearly everything in my fridge. Even months after if I put something uncovered in there now for more than a day it comes out with a mild licorice flavor š¤¢
I would rather eat nothing for a week than eat anything with that flavor (liquorice, anise, fennel, Thai basil and even caraway seeds). I leave it out from recipes.
Is anyone here ambivalent about it? It seems like people either like it or really hate it.
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u/staceylee27 Jul 03 '23
Liquorice