[Sca-cooks] Peppers

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> 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.


Why substitute 'v' for 'u'???  


> "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."


Cubebs, or Tail Pepper???

William de Grandfort

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