Long pepper is a plant from the family Piperacea with for a pepperThe plant produces very small fruits in a spike-like growth habit. The best-known types are the Indian and Javanese long pepper, Piper longum and Piper retrofractum. Long pepper is a snowed-under peppersear, the pepperthe market has been dominated since the seventeenth century by the dried round berries of Piper nigrum (black pepper) and since the eighteenth century the most formidable competitor: the Capsicum or chilipepper.
In the period before that, spices were scarce and expensive, and many spices from Asia, mostly India, were transported overland due to a lack of transport options. - larger ships only came later - and skills. For how could you sail the East with the prevailing wind direction during the monsoon season?
The prevailing peppers in the Middle Ages and before that were the African pepper, called grains of paradise, and the long pepper, which was used as a medicine until the sixth century following Indian Ayurveda, and only afterwards also as a flavoring. Only then did the long pepper a popular culinary ingredient in Greek and Roman cuisine, and from there in the rest of Europe.
Gradually, the long acquires pepper another spot next to the black one pepper, particularly the varieties cultivated in India and Indonesia. In this follows the long pepper the tradition of the black pepper. Honesty compels me to say that not all long peppers those that come from there can match the 'little' tall ones in terms of taste peppers from elsewhere, which have the disadvantage of being scarcer and more expensive. History repeats itself.
We currently supply two types of Piper retrofractum, distinguished by the blushing red color of ripening: the Japanese pipatsu and the Cambodian lange. pepper, originating from the same region as the famous Kampot pepper, and one species of Piper longum, from the Vietnamese Binh Duong. The supply of the Japanese pipatsu and The Binh duong is temporarily 'complicated'. Therefore, we are currently only supplying the long red Kampot. pepper.
We are missing two other long ones from this overview. peppers, the African Piper capense (Cape long pepper), and Assam pepper, the long one shaped like a blackberry peppertje, which is even more complex in taste than the spike-shaped long one peppers. Despite a very long search, we have not yet succeeded in a high-quality and reasonably affordable Cape long pepper to obtain. The search continues unabated. We do, however, offer the Assam pepper on, the Piper mulesua.
Try this other one pepper once. Enjoy its warm, earthy aromas and its complexity that long peppers makes it ideally suited for use in curries and stews (whole, broken, or ground), but also lends itself perfectly to use as a substitute for blackcurrant. pepper in the pepper grinderIn that case, it is recommended to first crush the ear and remove the spindle.
How grind a long pepper ?
Just like nutmeg, you can long pepper grind by grating it, for example using a small Microplane grater, which you moreover, you can use it for garlic and ginger. Or our Billund nutmeg grinder, with its practical twist mechanism. With it, you are guaranteed to keep your fingers safe and waste little pepper!
