[Sca-cooks] roasted cubebs

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    You should've seen the expressions on people's faces when I made Wasabi
ice cream. The heat isn't like a capsaicin, which lingers; as soon as you
swallow, the heat is gone. The combination of chemical heat and physical
cold was . . . interesting. Folks would taste it, spend a few moments trying
to figure out just exactly WHAT was going on in their mouths, and then
they'd finish it. Everyone said they liked it, but it was . . . different.
It was really amusing seeing eyes pop wide open, though.

    Sieggy

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> Cubebs (Piper cubeba) are a relative of black pepper (Piper nigrum).  The
> taste is a little milder and broader (in my opinion) than black pepper.
> Which gives me an idea--cubeb cream sauce.
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> Bear
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