[Sca-cooks] Grains of Paradise or Not?

[dailleurs at liripipe.com]

hi from Anne-Marie

grains of paradise are small, angular grains, dark brown/black with a fluffy white middle. they are much smaller than allspice, which looks to me like a plump peppercorn. The seed pod grains come from is a largish dry brown pod, kinda like what shows up on my day lillies :).

chances are, based on your description that what you found was indeed the new world allspice.

hope this is helpful?
--AM

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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:54:13 -0800 (PST), mwomack at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> 
> The other day in a large ethnic market here I found Goya brand malagueta
> which I understand is one of the names for grains of paradise.  But they were 
> also called allspice on the label.  Are these the same as the grains of paradise
> I see listed in medieval receipts or another spice entirely?  They were about the 
> size of traditional whole allspice and dark brown.
> 
> 
> Ninon
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