[Sca-cooks] Spices

[Terry Decker]

> Bear wrote:
> >Long pepper is a very small seed (similar in size to poppy seed, black
> >pepper is a relatively large one.
>
> Long pepper is a small seed?  That's not what's being sold as long pepper 
> at Pennsic, etc.  It's an oblong thing up to half an inch long. Did you 
> mis-say this?
>
> Alys K.

What you are referencing is the flower spike or catkin which contains many 
closely packed seeds.  Black pepper actually has a similar structure, but 
the size of the seeds keep them from being closely packed.

Bear