I'm Molly and I'm Matt and this is Spilled Milk. The show where we cook something delicious

eat it all and sometimes just soak it in warm water and you can't have any and this

week we're talking about bay leaves which Matthew so wait you said you made an infusion

and you weren't kidding it's just like bay leaf herbal tea it's just bay leaf herbal

tea oh great this could warm it up and put it in a mug or something but I just want

to like taste a spoonful of it why bother yeah today we're talking about bay leaves which

is I feel like bay leaves are who who suggested this episode was it you I don't know I didn't

see it on the list of list suggestions I don't know but you know I'm glad we're doing it

because here's the thing bay leaves show up in so much stuff and yet I don't think any of us

really understand what they taste like or why we're using well today we're gonna find out okay

now play like a cool sound effect like wow cool sound effect all right all right let's go down

memory lane what's your bay leaf memory lane so I just remember bay leaves being something that

just showed up in a lot of recipes that my parents were making sure inevitably like a soup or a stew

or like like a meat sauce or something like that yeah you just throw a bay leaf in there and see

what happens I've always found it quite satisfying to see them in like the spice cabinet or the

spice drawer or whatever like the idea of a jar that has these leaves in it yes they're like

very sad in there like like parallel you know vertical orientation just sitting up in the jar yeah

yeah and I remember I remember seeing them even as a kid and being like oh these are different

from the other spices yes that's a good point that like when you look at at the spice shelf like

there are some that that say like hey I'm a little special because I'm not just like a powder

or like some some like little crushed up leaves right like I'm a nutmeg or I'm cinnamon stick or I'm

a bay leaf yes they're like the big ones maybe a whole peppercorn of some kind yeah I'm a whole

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