[Sca-cooks] Pepper (Spices at Spicewells)

[Susanne Mayer]

My favorite web site to search all things spicy and herbal:

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html

tonns of inforamtions, and PICTURES,....

Berries:
Pepper Rosé (Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi with pictures
or also Brazil Pepper
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Schi_ter.html

Grains of Paradise

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Afra_mel.html

FYI
Katharina
DW, doing backlog (about 40 digests)


> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:32:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Spices at Spicewells <spicewells at yahoo.com>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Pepper
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> Grains of Paradise (affromomum melegueta) is actually an African pod seed, 
> similar to cardamom.? Grains actually have a cardamomesque note at the end 
> of the pungency.?
>
> Botanical info:? http://www.tropilab.com/nengrekondrepepre.html
> Long pepper is Piper Longum, more pungent than black pepper, piper negrum, 
> and has floral notes.
> Cubebs, Piper Cubeba, aka tailed pepper or comet pepper, is similar to 
> black pepper with a citrusy aftertaste.
> Caitriona
> www.spicewells.us
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>
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> From: Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Pepper
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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>>> I hadn't seen that grains of paradise are dried berries before; I like
>>> grains of paradise, but I hate black pepper, so now I'm curious, what
>>> is black pepper ?
>>
>> Long pepper, IIRC, is of the same genus as black pepper: piper longum as 
>> opposed to piper negrum... or has it, like the Pluto formerly known as a 
>> planet, been reclassified?
>
> Come to think of it, grains of paradise aren't berries, but seeds from a 
> pod plant related to cardamom. Afrimomum melegueta. And they say my memory 
> is going as I age...
>
> Is it possible that this elusive pepper-like berry being referred to is 
> pink peppercorns?
>
> Adamantius
>>
> End of Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 65, Issue 17
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