[Sca-cooks] Peppers

[Johnna Holloway]

That's a copied title from the STC entry where titles are often
given as v for the u. It's quite common to see this when working
with early printed works.
It says "taile pepper" as copied.

Johnnae

Chris Stanifer wrote:

>--- Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
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>>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.
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>Why substitute 'v' for 'u'???  
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>>"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."
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>Cubebs, or Tail Pepper???
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>William de Grandfort
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