[Sca-cooks] Spice ID?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

From: "otsisto" <otsisto at socket.net>
>Not grains of paradise. perhaps cubeb?
>
>Lyse

Nope. Cubeb doesn't look anything like this. They are individual 
peppercorns, bigger than piper nigrum and with a very thin stem, 
which gives cubeb the name of tail or tailed pepper.
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/generic_noframe.html?Pipe_cub.html

Here's what Grains of Paradise look like in the pod:
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/generic_noframe.html?Afra_mel.html

Cardamom seeds are very very dark from standard cardamom that comes 
in the small light green (sometimes bleached white-ish) pods.
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/generic_noframe.html? Elet_car.html

There are many other types of cardamom that grow in South and 
Southeast Asia and are often dried by smoking - which these pods 
appear to be... so maybe one of these other types of cardamom
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/generic_noframe.html?Amom_sub.html
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