This quite sharp red, long pepper is a pepper that can compete with many black people pepperHe is from Đắk Lắk (Dak Lak), a province in western Vietnam, on the Cambodian border. Đắk Lắk is located in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên).
Permanently reduced in price
Long pepper was used as a medicine by the Greeks and Romans. Until the twelfth century, long pepper In Europe, the spice, according to tradition, was mainly used to mask the harsh taste of meat. It was a fairly expensive spice. In the first century AD, the price of long pepper twice as expensive as the price of white pepper and four times the price of black pepper.
In the fourteenth century a real pepperstruggle involving all the colonial powers. There was soon no room for long pepper, displaced by black pepper, and later with the discovery of the New World on the sharp side by chilipeppers.
In Southeast Asia, the long pepper always remained popular. The most special long peppers come from this part of the world, from Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan. Outside of Asia, the Cape pepper in large parts of the African continent, especially in eastern and southern Africa.
The plant it grows on is a tall pepper Of the Indian variety, Piper longum. It grows on a small, no more than a meter tall, vine. It has broad, green leaves and scaled ears 5-8 cm long, resembling willow catkins. Tiny flowers are hidden beneath these scales in spring, from which the seeds later develop. These are about the size of poppy seeds.
Smell and taste
This long pepper is quite sharp, especially for a pepper of this type. The taste and smell of long pepper is complex, especially that of this mature peppers.
Usage
The dried pepperIt is quite hard and seems difficult to process, but when you pepperIf you break it or cut it into pieces first, it can be easily ground or mortared. The smell of ground long pepper is without a doubt overwhelming, very aromatic. It is sometimes compared to that of False cardamom (korarima): sour-sweet. In the Vietnamese long pepper the sweetness clearly predominates.
Features:
- 100% pepperberries of the Piper longum
- origin: Đắk Lắk, Vietnam
Assortment
- available in glass (45 grams) and stand-up pouch (no test tubes)
- larger quantities on request
Gift wrapping
- The jar is available in a tasteful gift packaging, consisting of a cube box filled with black tissue paper.
- For an overview of our gift packaging, please refer to the gift packaging section.
General advice
- use long pepper whole or broken. When you pepper grind, grind your pepper then shortly before use, and store any excess ground in a tightly sealed jar.
- the whole or broken pepper is best used in stews, so that the pepper is given time to integrate,
- add ground long pepper at the very last moment to your preparation
Save:
- save your long pepper pepper in closed packaging
- preferably store in a dark, dry and cool place
- batch 220219 - best before September 2027 (09-2027)
- This expiration date is an indication
Batch number
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