Being located in Germany I have a bit of a problem getting some of the needed ingredients.

Mostly I'm having issues getting these:

• Bassar / Basaar Curry Masala mix powder
• Rajah Mild Madras (I can get tons of other Mild Madras blends, though)
• All Spice (what is this ?!?!)
• Chaat Masala
• Mango Powder (Amchoor)
• Panch Phoran (might be able to get this if I drive far enough)
• Rajah All-Purpose Seasoning (huh ?)

All those ingredient apart from the Mango Powder and Bassar/Basaar are not used very often, but I'm having a real issue getting this Bassar stuff. I can't even find an online store which ships to Germany that stocks it.

While reading around this forum I noticed that Bassar is also referred to as Kashmiri Curry Masala. Now, I do have a glass of Patak's Kashmiri Masala - is this an exact replacement or am I mixing things up ?

Also, can anyone explain what "All Spice" and "Rajah All-Purpose Seasoning" are and how I might substitute them ? Rajah brand is not popular over here. One asian store owner told me that Rajah was a "cheap" brand, he only buys TRS ... I don't believe any of it but that's what he said :/

Lastly - what is "Chaat Masala" and how would I be able to substitute it ?

Seriously, people, please leave CA alone. He is absolutely right with most of the things he says and it's (in retrospective) no wonder he got so worked up about it. He has all the right to be upset.

Please do mind the following:

• Cory Ander is a much more valuable member of this forum than I am - if anyone needs to leave then it's me. Please stop asking for trouble by telling him to go ahead and delete his content.
  
• All problemativ documents are now offline - noone that didn't grab them in their 24 hour availability window will be able to get them now. The saga is over, so to say ...
• CA certainly retains the copyright on his words and images; no matter what the rules to this forum say - at least here in Germany and I would suspect the same for the UK (the forum rules are written from a US standpoint, which doesn't apply to Europe for the most part). However, you cannot copyright a recipe. Simply not possible. But that's an entirely different subject and not one that I'm to discuss.
• I'd appreciate if those members who asked me breach copyrights by enquiring I send them stuff which I already said I wouldn't, would not participate in this discussion. That's a really fake thing to do ... I believe in Japan they call that Two-Faced.

Please, Admin, close this thread. Cory is right with most things and I regret ever posting the docs (I'm sure tons of other members made similar stuff anyway). For what it's worth I failed to follow rule #7 ... We'll just forget about rule #14

ALL content is ONLY posted to this forum (feel free to search the web). I would upload it directly to this forum instead of using MY OWN hosting, however this forum doesn't allow anymore uploads (check my Bruce Edwards post). It is not and will not be available elsewhere.

Regardless, I continue to respect your wishes (whatever bad intentions you imply) and will therefore remove the doc with your recipes and any other removal requests. I'm not very happy about it (mostly due to to you implying I post the content elsewhere which really makes me mad) but it'll be done as soon as I get on my laptop.

Edit
The CA document is now removed and won't be made available again, so please no PMs about it.

@Cory: As an (audio) content publisher (read: failed musician) I certainly understand your copyright concerns regarding intellectual property and piracy. However, there is such a thing as fair use. In my 15 years on the web I learned one thing: what content is here today may very well be gone tomorrow. I moderated a software forum for a couple of years and wrote about 800 extensive HOW-TOs with screenshots and whatnot. Then the provider - from one day to the next - simply folded. Website and forum gone - gone. Backups ? gone. We tried to salvage stuff off www.archive.org but we were so concerned with people stealing our content that our robots.txt had explicitly disabled spidering the website :/

Anyway, just take my best intentions as granted but I think I'll rather refrain from posting any more of this type of content in the future and woud rather not discuss it further either.

Any other link may break soon, so get it while it's hot

Which are you looking for ? I'll post the link(s). I didn't put the links in the first post as I don't know how long the links will last, might be only days might be months before I start reorganizing my Dropbox and the links will die then.