This sweet pepper, forerunner of the various cultivated forms of the present day, is probably native to Colombia and may still be found in South and Central America. It differs from the cultivated sorts by having small deciduous fruits. The dried and ground ripe berries are used for seasoning, especially those of the red forms with long, pointed fruits. The berries of the blunt-tipped forms and plump, tomato-like fleshy-walled peppers arc harvested before they are ripe and eaten raw in salads or braised, roasted or preserved as a vegetable.
A characteristic constituent of capsicum is the strongly irritant alkaloid capsaicin, occurring most abundantly in the placenta partitions inside the berry to which the seeds are attached. The various cultivated forms differ in the amount of capsaicin they contain as do the seasonings of various provenance.
The so-called 'Spanish paprika' is the sweetest variety, the seeds and partitions of which are carefully removed before grinding the fruit.
Paprika is one of the basic condiments of cookery. Without it there wouldn't he any Hungarian goulash. It is used in sauces, soups, salads, cheese spreads, sausages and salamis, as well as in meat and poultry dishes. It is one of the ingredients used to make tomato ketchup and curry-powder. Besides the dried ground seasoning, the tinned paste from the fresh ripe fruit is gaining widespread popularity.
Caraway is a biennial plant indigenous to a wide area embracing almost all of Europe and Asia. Because of its large consumption it is nowadays grown as a field crop throughout most of Europe as well as in Asia and north Africa. It does not tolerate wet, heavy clay soils.
It is grown from seed and is an annual herb with branching stem attaining a height of 60 cm (2 ft). The fruits are harvested by hand as they ripen and are usually strung like beads and hung to dry under the eaves against the sun-baked walls of rural cottages
A characteristic constituent of capsicum is the strongly irritant alkaloid capsaicin, occurring most abundantly in the placenta partitions inside the berry to which the seeds are attached. The various cultivated forms differ in the amount of capsaicin they contain as do the seasonings of various provenance.
The so-called 'Spanish paprika' is the sweetest variety, the seeds and partitions of which are carefully removed before grinding the fruit.
Paprika is one of the basic condiments of cookery. Without it there wouldn't he any Hungarian goulash. It is used in sauces, soups, salads, cheese spreads, sausages and salamis, as well as in meat and poultry dishes. It is one of the ingredients used to make tomato ketchup and curry-powder. Besides the dried ground seasoning, the tinned paste from the fresh ripe fruit is gaining widespread popularity.
Caraway is a biennial plant indigenous to a wide area embracing almost all of Europe and Asia. Because of its large consumption it is nowadays grown as a field crop throughout most of Europe as well as in Asia and north Africa. It does not tolerate wet, heavy clay soils.
It is grown from seed and is an annual herb with branching stem attaining a height of 60 cm (2 ft). The fruits are harvested by hand as they ripen and are usually strung like beads and hung to dry under the eaves against the sun-baked walls of rural cottages
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