The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . small dish usually holds grated horse-radishin vinegar. Pepper and salt are served in small individualmetal tubes or boxes. The foreign restaurants serve blackpepper in a machine which grinds what is needed for the cellars are also still in use. What is Pepper? It grows on a Pepper-vine in Sumatra, Java, Borneo andMalaysia. The vines are trained on trees or shrubs, and areallowed to grow four years before a crop is gathered. The berry grows in the fashion ofa red curran
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . small dish usually holds grated horse-radishin vinegar. Pepper and salt are served in small individualmetal tubes or boxes. The foreign restaurants serve blackpepper in a machine which grinds what is needed for the cellars are also still in use. What is Pepper? It grows on a Pepper-vine in Sumatra, Java, Borneo andMalaysia. The vines are trained on trees or shrubs, and areallowed to grow four years before a crop is gathered. The berry grows in the fashion ofa red currant, on rather longerstalks, with the size of the fruittapering to little ones at theend of the cluster. The ber-ries are gathered green, anddried on mats in the sun. Thisturns them black. White Pep-per is made by soaking theseberries until the outer skin peels off. Long Pepper is a productof the same vine. Americans use a great deal of Pepper—particularly on their meats. What is Red Pepper ? Red Pepper, called also Cayenne Pepper, is the principalcondiment in all hot countries. The plants which bear the 172. Fig. 64. THE PEPPER PLANT. SPICES, ETC. r<3 various kinds of Red Peppers bear no botanical relation toBlack Pepper, but are often large triangular red pods. Thepods may be bottled in vinegar, which will absorb a high degreeof their pungent property. It is said that even the birds of thetropics resort to these vegetables for a tonic that will arousetheir digestion, and die if they are deprived of this food. OurPepper sauce and Tobasco sauce are made by steeping smallRed Peppers in vinegar. What is Mustard ? A very ancient condiment. It was also used by the firstdoctors whose names have reached us. In 1720 Mrs. Clements,of Durham, England, invented the present method of preparingtable Mustard, and having pleased the taste of George I, thearticle attained a popularity it has never lost. The small roundseeds are ground and the husks are separated from the and wh
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