Caraway Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Caraway (Carum carvi) is a biennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to meadows and pastures across Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia, and grown as a spice crop in the Netherlands, Finland, and Canada. It forms a rosette of finely divided, feathery leaves in its first year and in the second sends up a slender, hollow, branching stem 30 to 80 centimeters tall topped with small flat umbels of tiny white or pinkish flowers. The fruits are the familiar curved, ribbed, brown crescents 3 to 6 millimeters long, with a warm, sharp, anise-and-pepper flavor that marks rye bread, sauerkraut, and kummel liqueur. We extract the dried fruit.