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Cubeb Pepper Specialist Spice

Description Price Quantity
Cubeb Pepper Mini Jar - 10g £1.00
Cubeb Pepper Premium Cannister £4.50
Cubeb Pepper Standard Jar - 47g e £2.95

Cubeb pepper, or tailed pepper (or even older Java pepper), comes from a vine native to Java and other Indonesian islands. They look like cartoon bombs that you might see in Tintin books; they are black and of a similar size to black peppercorns but with a 3 – 6mm long stalk sticking out of one end. Within the outer shell, there is a small seed but no white core as in Piper nigrum. The aroma of cubeb pepper is fresh, peppery and almost citrussy, while the flavour is hot, pungent and pine-like. Although popular for many years as a substitute for true pepper, it is seldom seen in cuisine nowadays save for being a key component of Steenbergs ras al-hanut spice blend - a throwback to the times that spice trading was dominated by Arab merchants.

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