How to Use aniseed in a Sentence

aniseed

noun
  • Baked apples and oak hit first but then takes an herbal and fragrant turn towards aniseed, fennel, and celery dipped in peanut butter.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Add in cinnamon and nutmeg, a healthy amount of ginger and pepper, plus some aniseed and coriander.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The wheat dough Nilsson is working with includes golden syrup, aniseed, fennel seeds and coriander seeds.
    Howie Kahn, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Finish your meals with a chupito (shot) of hierbas ibicencas—a savory-sweet liqueur blended with wild herbs and aniseed.
    National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • On the primi side of things, penne with broccoli rabe included abundant chunks of a sausage rewardingly strong on the fennel-aniseed flavor.
    Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • McCormick also roasted small cubes of eggplant and glazed it with a mixture of orange and lemon juice, honey, aniseed, and orange zest for brightness and sweetness.
    Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The two-week process involves fermenting a mix of sugar or fruit, water, lemon salt and dried yeast before distilling the alcohol and adding aniseed oil and water.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherché, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Another must-try is the roasted wheat with aniseed and hazelnut for dessert, which goes perfectly with one of the kitchen’s non-alcoholic drinks, such as apple juice kefir or green tea kombucha.
    Jessica Jungbauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2017
  • But in the evenings, relatives and friends would come to visit — everyone would be glued to the TV — and there was always cardamom coffee and malateet or makarona (savory or sweet aniseed crackers) on the coffee table.
    Reem Kassis, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Preparation Toast aniseed in a dry small skillet over medium heat, tossing often, until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
    Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
  • At the elegant Art Nouveau bar Anisetta Meletti, customers can order the olives as an accompaniment to the establishment’s renowned liqueur made from aniseed.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Basmati rice grown in the Himalayan foothills is the base for this silky Indian vodka, distilled five times in a certified carbon-neutral facility, then infused with aniseed for rich flavor.
    Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2021
  • This aniseed-flavored spirit is usually sipped slowly over long meals, but it can also be chased (or co-sipped)i with şalgam suyu, a complex elixir made of pickled red carrots, turnips, and spices, and fermented in wooden barrels.
    Nikita Richardson, Bon Appetit, 28 Apr. 2017
  • That’s an apt description of the 2018 Bohan-Dillon, which recalls raspberry, pine needles and aniseed, and whose bright, expressive fruit flavors are countered with a pleasant bitterness.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Evoke the aura of a cackling fire with this woody scent from Diptyque, which features notes of wood, vetiver and patchouli enhanced with radient aniseed, insolent spices, mysterious incense, cistus and tonka bean.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 23 Jan. 2023
  • For this first go-around, the machines evidently poured over infinite iterations to help Mackmyra create AI Whisky, a golden yellow single-malt with herbal notes of aniseed, ginger, and white pepper and a citrusy, spicy mouth with a dry finish.
    Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019

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