[Sca-cooks] Spanish Pepper?

Susan Lin susanrlin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 17:28:33 PDT 2011


Good luck - I know if people here have an answer for you they will share and
I look forward to learning new things.  I am sorry I can offer no insight to
you on this matter.

Shoshanah

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Honour Horne-Jaruk <jarukcomp at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> Respected friends:
> At my annual "siege cooking" contest at Pennsic this year, one of the
> contestants included dishes spiced with "Spanish pepper" - a Capsicum
> pepper, not a Piper species- which she insisted went back to Roman times and
> was ironclad-documentable to our time period.
> I said I didn't agree and refused those dishes entry. The contestants were
> very upset with me.
> I must preface by saying all new world spices were forbidden because I'm
> allergic/hypersensitive to them, and Capsicum peppers are high on that list.
> However, I now beg the Collected Wisdom of sca-cooks to help me figure out
> why my contestant thought Capsicum peppers were around in Roman times. Is
> there some kind of Piper which was grown in Spain by the Romans, or is the
> whole thing out of whack, or what?
>
> Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
> (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
> Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict
>
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> but it's unlikely to end well."
> --Goedjn
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