[Sca-cooks] looking for recipes using Abchazskij Ostray peppers

[Mark S. Harris]

Greetings folks,

I recently got this question by email. Included is the original request,
my reply and his reply. I'm still not sure we are communicating on the
"native" country for these peppers. But I thought I'd pass this on to
this list because of the wide knowledge here. Perhaps someone has some
information about this "Russian" pepper.

Any of the rest of you growing 48 varieties of peppers in your garderns?
:-)

Please send any replies to Leslie at lberting at prairieinet.net since
this person is not on this list.

Thanks,
   Stefan

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Thank you for your reply.  Please feel free to forward my message to anyone
who might be able to give me some information on uses for that pepper.  I am
growing over 48 different varieties of peppers and am very interested in
finding out how these peppers are used in their native countries.  Any
information would be very much appreciated.  Thanks again for your time.
Leslie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S. Harris" <stefan at texas.net>
To: "lberting" <lberting at prairieinet.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Peppers

 > Greetings Leslie,
 >
 > All of the pepper plants orginated in the New World. So any
 > Russian ones did not originate there or this may be referring
 > to a hybrid developed there.
 >
 > I'm afraid that my site concentrates on medieval Europe with
 > a rather arbitrary cutoff date of 1600 AD because that is what
 > the SCA has set their cutoff to. So most of what you see on
 > my site about peppers will be those that the Spanish were finding
 > in the New World in the first one hundred years. So I'm not sure
 > if that pepper will show up there. However, perhaps some of the
 > referances given in this file might include it, since they likely
 > will not have this particular cut-off date.
 >
 > I suspect that most pepper recipes will work with any pepper variety,
 > although some dishes may take particular advantages of some peppers
 > into account.
 >
 > So, I would check this file in the FOOD-VEGETABLES section:
 > peppers-msg       (39K)  6/13/02    The introduction of peppers to Europe.
 >
 > Stefan
 >
 > lberting wrote:
 > > I am growing Abchazskij Ostray - Alpha peppers in Iowa USA.  I am
 > > looking for traditonal recipes using this pepper.  Can you help? The
 > > seed description reads as Abchazskij Ostruyi (USSR-Very Rare) - Capsicum
 > > annuum. Plant produces good yields of 4 1/4" long by 7/8" wide hot
 > > peppers. Peppers turn green to yellow when mature. Plant has green
 > > stems, green leaves, and white flowers. A rare variety from former
 > > USSR. Thank you for your time.  Leslie Berting
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    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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