SC - Off Topic: Muggles for Harry Potter

[Huette von Ahrens]

Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
> 
> Allspice is called pepper in many languages (Jamaica pepper, Nelkenpfeffer,
> kryddpeppar, poivre de la jamaique, etc.), pimenta in others, but some names
> also refer to its taste and aroma, which often seem like a blend of several
> spices (in Icelandic, it is called allrahanda, which means "all sorts"; this
> term is also used for mixed spice blends of the type I described in my
> earlier post and sometimes you have no idea which of these things the term
> refers to in a recipe.

To add to the confusion, some French cooks refer to allspice as
quatre-epice, regardless of the fact that they also use an actual blend
of four spices (pepper, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon) for a largely
similar purpose.

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