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Strong flavour eased in cooking (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aniseed

'strong flavour' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'eased in cooking' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'eased'+'in'='easedin'
'easedin' anagrammed gives 'ANISEED'.

(Other definitions for aniseed that I've seen before include "Eased in (anag)" , "Plant" , "Strong flavouring often used in sweets" , "Flavouring in pastis" , "Die sane (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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