[Sca-cooks] Spices

[Terry Decker]

Ahh, Piper longum is the more common long pepper.  It is also referred to as 
Indian long pepper.  Piper retrofractum is a related pepper plant native to 
Java called Balinese long pepper or Javanese long pepper.  If both were used 
at Hampton Court in Tudor times, that is an interesting tidbit.

Bear

> Greetings!  I hadn't been aware that there were two (or more??) kinds of 
> long pepper until I visited Hampton Court.  I was given a tiny bit of the 
> second variety (name unknown) which ended up being so spicy that my tongue 
> was numbed.
>
> Alys K.
> -- 
> Elise Fleming