In America, basil has been grown for over years. It was air dried or preserved in layers of salt and kept in earthenware crocks. Basil has many uses, the most common of which is its culinary use. As a fresh herb, it is used to flavor foods such as vegetables, poultry, and fish. It is famous for use in Italian dishes such as pesto. Basil is commonly preserved in vinegar or olive oil and adds a delightful flavor to both for salad dressings.
It is also used for flavor in jelly, honey, tea, and liquor. Basil can also be used dried. The flowers of basil are also edible and can be an attractive addition to salads and other dishes. Besides its edibility, basil is an aromatic herb and is often used in potpourri and sachets.
The cosmetic industry uses basil oil in lotion, shampoo, perfume, and soap. As an ornamental in the flower garden, basil has attractive foliage and flowers. Basil is a tender perennial grown as an annual. It can be grown easily from seed. Start seed indoors 4 or 5 weeks before the last frost date. It likes warm temperatures about 75 F for germination. Seed can also be sown directly in the ground outdoors after it has warmed in the spring. Plant basil outdoors after all danger of frost is past.
Basil does not tolerate cold temperatures. Plant in full sun and avoid heavy nitrogen fertilization. Too much nitrogen affects oil content and flavor. Water regularly with an inch of water a week. Basil can also be propagated vegetatively through tip cuttings. Root cuttings in moist perlite or coarse sand To harvest, remove terminal growth whenever four sets of true leaves can be left on the plant.
It had the power to freeze living things with its gaze and melt surrounding shrubs with its poison, and might have been based on stories of King Cobras filtering over to Ancient Greece from India. Common sense might tell you that basil, a lovely little herb, has nothing in common with the basilisk, a nasty little snake, but herbologists of yore weren't famous for their common sense.
Some said that it was a good cure for the basilik's petrifying gaze, others that basil leaves, left alone under a pot for a while, would turn into a scorpion an animal that was also associated with the basilisk , and a Frenchman named Hilarius said that just smelling basil would breed a scorpion in the brain, despite the notable lack of documented brain scorpion outbreaks.
In French, the word for the monster and the herb are still the same basilic , and Latin didn't bother to differentiate, either both were basiliscus. Wacky historical quacks aside, it's hard to say whether the Romans used the same word for both because of a genuine connection or if it's more like the accidental case of "rocket" in modern English.
But today as also seen throughout history, basil is not only used as a food flavoring, but also in perfumery, incense, and herbal holistic remedies. Recent scientific studies have established that compounds the essential oil of basil plants possess potent antioxidant, antiviral, and antimicrobial properties.
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