The most known and ancient spice on the earth is pepper. This word became the collective name for very many spices long ago. It happened so most likely because black pepper became the first spice delivered in midland.
Instruction
1. The main part of the black pepper used by the whole world is manufactured in India. The homeland of this plant it is considered to be Malikhabar, the southwest coast of India. There this spice is called "malabarsky berry". Malabarky and still Telesheri are recognized as the world's best grades of pepper. Pepper represents the typical inhabitant of flora of tropics. It is the treelike liana belonging to family peppery which in the wild nature climbs up trunks of trees, and on plantations for it do special props which it also twists. The first fruits appear for the third year after landing, and the sharpness of pepper depends not only on degree of maturity and type of processing, but also on the maintenance of piperin who is formed in pepper only under the influence of sunlight.
2. The sort of pepper from family of peppery contains more than 1500 plants which fruits represent spherical stone fruit of various shades. These are most often grassy and shrubby plants, is more rare - trees with upright trunk. From all this variety in India are long since cultivated a little, eaten. The fruits of these plants which have kept up and dried up in due form represent spices well familiar to all - white, green and peppercorn. For receiving fruits of black, green and white pepper are used the same plant, only the way of processing of fruits is various. To receive black pepper, fruits collect unripe and dry in the sun. Green pepper turns out from the same unripe fruits which dried at high temperature, and covered then with salt. For receiving white pepper to fruits allow to ripen completely, and then soak in sea water and ferment in the sun. White pepper more fragrant and less sharp if to compare it to black, but green of all three most fragrant and has no sharpness at all, refreshes rather.
3. Peppercorn is considered universal spice, and from three types of pepper it is the most demanded. It is connected with the fact that black pepper is combined both with meat, and with fish, and with vegetables as seasoning, some recipes of exotic cuisine assume even use it in sweet dishes. White pepper is well combined with gentle products which have no own bright smell, such as boiled meat, eggs or dumplings. And green pepper is used only in fish dishes and at preparation of marinades. Black pepper is known for the antioxidant properties and antibacterial effect.