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

[Philippa Alderton]

Have you asked Alexey, Stefan? He's in a pretty good
place to do some research for us ;-)He even speaks and
reads the language.

Phlip


--- "Mark S. Harris" <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> =========================
> 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
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad
> Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas
> stefan at texas.net
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>
>
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