To make sure I’m ready for the rush of fall dishes to come, I’m picking up a hefty bottle of Kirkland Signature Organic Ground Cinnamon this month, and I think you should too.
What’s So Great About Kirkland Signature Organic Ground Cinnamon?
Ground cinnamon is an essential ingredient in many of your favorite fall foods, like pumpkin pie and breakfast breads. It comes from the bark of the cinnamon (Cinnamomum) tree and is sold rolled into cinnamon sticks or as a ground spice. Cinnamon has a warm, woodsy, sometimes spicy flavor that is inextricably linked to autumn.
Every fall, I reach into my spice cabinet multiple times a day for that bottle of ground cinnamon, so every year I refresh my stock. The power of spices is in their aroma, and over time ground spices need to be replaced to make sure you’re cooking with only the most flavorful ingredients.
I used to wait until before the holiday baking season to refresh spices like cinnamon, but recently I realized that I actually start cooking with them months earlier. You’ll notice a difference in the flavors when you start the fall season with a fresh bottle of ground cinnamon.
Spices can be expensive, so it’s understandable that you may be wary of tossing jars that seem perfectly fine or investing in a “Costco-sized” container of a single spice. The good news is that a 10.7-ounce bottle of Kirkland Signature Organic Ground Cinnamon costs just $5.29. (Last year it was only $4.99!) At my local grocery store in the Tampa, Florida area, I’d pay exactly the same amount for a 1.9-ounce bottle.