Kümmel

Kümmel is a herbal spirit, flavoured with caraway seeds, cumin, fennel and other herbs. The name is derived from the key herbs used. There has always been confusion around caraway and cumin. Both are herbaceous annual plants whose seeds bare a close resemblance. In more than one country the names are very similar. In German caraway seed is called Kümmel whilst cumin is Kreuzkümmel. In Scandinavia, caraway is called kummin, while cumin is called spiskummin. In Romania, chimen is caraway and chimion is cumin.