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Cubeb Pepper Specialist Spice

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Cubeb Pepper Standard Jar - 47g e £2.95
Cubeb Pepper Specialist Spice

Steenbergs Cubeb Pepper is a great and difficult to find specialist pepper.  Cubeb pepper, or tailed pepper - or even older Java pepper -, comes from a vine native to Java and other Indonesian islands. The cubeb pepper berries look like cartoon bombs that you might see in Tintin books; cubeb pepper berries 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 you get in a classic 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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