[Sca-cooks] Peppers

[Johnna Holloway]

As to what the English thought about peppers (white, black, and long)
one can read the 1588 work--
A short discourse of the three kindes of peppers in common vse and 
certaine special medicines made of the same, tending to the preseruation 
of health.
It's by Walter Baley or Bailey, 1529-1592.
STC 1199. On microfilm, EEBO and also as part of the English Experience 
series.
The British Library copy also 1588 is STC 1200.
Bailey talks a lot about what the Spanish and Portuguese voyages have 
discovered.
"We do read of another kind of pepper brought out of the Indians, which 
the Portingals
called Piemento Rabo, in Latin Piper caudatum, and may be englished 
taile pepper."

Johnnae