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Choctaw Native Americans of the American South (Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana) were the first to use dried, ground sassafras leaves as a seasoning. [6] The French word filé is the past participle of the verb filer, meaning (among other things) "to turn into threads", "to become ropy". [7] [8]
Sassafras albidum is an important ingredient in some distinct foods of the US. It has been the main ingredient in traditional root beers and sassafras root teas, and the ground leaves of sassafras are a distinctive additive in Louisiana's Cajun cuisine. Sassafras is used in filé powder, a common thickening and flavoring agent in Louisiana gumbo.
Sassafras albidum is used primarily in the United States as the key ingredient in home brewed root beer and as a thickener and flavouring in traditional Louisiana Creole gumbo. [24] Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, for its use in making gumbo, is a spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the sassafras tree.
Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used, whether okra or filé powder (dried and ground sassafras leaves). Gumbo can be made with or without okra or filé powder. The preferred method in the historical New Orleans variation is with a French dark, even chocolate-like, roux. The flavor of the dish has its origins in many cultures.
Doryphora sassafras, commonly known as sassafras, yellow sassafras, golden deal or golden sassafras, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the Southern Sassafras Family Atherospermataceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub to tree with elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and contrasting white flowers which occur in autumn and winter.
Doryphora aromatica is a tree that typically grows to 12–40 m (39–131 ft) high. Its leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 50–135 mm (2.0–5.3 in) long and 20–43 mm (0.79–1.69 in) wide on a petiole 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, [2] and emit an aromatic odour when crushed. [3]
Doryphora sassafras, an Australian tree from temperate rainforests; Sassafras albidum, the sassafras tree of eastern North America, used in tea, root beer, and gumbo filé powder; Cinnamomum oliveri, known as Black Sassafras or Oliver's Sassafras, an Australian rain forest laurel; Street slang for Marijuana
Doryphora is a genus of 2 species of flowering plants in the family Atherospermataceae that are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Doryphora are medium-sized to tall trees with glabrous, leathery, sometimes serrated leaves, and flowers usually arranged in groups of 3, each flower with both make and female parts, usually 4 or 6 tepals, 6 stamens and 6 to 12 carpels.