Cumin is a spice the seeds of which are generally roasted before addition to savoury dishes throughout most of the hot countries in the world. Serve a few seeds with soft cheese or Münster.
The white seeds of cumin are commonly used. It is a musty smelling spice, the flavour of which is improved by roasting or frying.
A cup cake is a fairy cake, a small, individual sponge cake, but with coloured icing (US: frosting). Fairy cakes are cup cakes without the icing.
This is a dish served at the Dragon School in Oxford and consists of bread with a circle cut out of the middle, fried and then an egg popped in for the last two minutes. Best cooked in dripping.
The curled octopus is a small, pale-coloured octopus with curled tentacles which is boiled and served whole, perhaps with oil and vinegar.
