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Cayenne – Chili Pepper

Capsicum frutescens

A staple in holiday cooking for decades, this nutty variety, with a hearty taste and apple like texture is finding its way into year round culinary creations. This member of the fruit family and cousin to pumpkin is superb when roasted in the oven or on the grill, chopped or mashed for use in casseroles and breads, and as in our recipe below, toasted and pureed for use in a definitely terrific tasting soup.

For ideal results, peel with a sharp vegetable peeler, and use a very sharp knife to cut the squash lengthwise, before baking.

After cooking, be cautious when pureeing the hot soup, as it can splash out of the blender. Wear a hot pad, and hold the blender lid down tight. Transfer the tiny batches of pureed soup to a huge bowl, and then back to a clean stockpot.

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.

Solanaceae (nightshade family)

2. Cut the butternut squash in half lengthwise.

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The species name, also from Latin, indicates “bearing fruit.” Yielding a number of the world’s best-known spices, Capsicum embraces about twenty species, all native to tropical America.

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The chili originated more than 3 thousand years ago, yet its precise birthplace is still a mystery. Prehistoric folks greatly predating these cultures very first began cultivating wild chili peppers in regions of today’s Mexico and Central America. The Spanish “discovery” of these astounding New World plants led to revolutionizing foods and medicines worldwide. Now extra chilis are produced and eaten than any other seasoning inside the world.

Long before the Spanish arrived, Mayan and Aztec Indians and their ancestors were growing diverse peppers for myriad uses, several noted in photos and glyphs of Mayan codices. Chili peppers are grown in warm climates about the globe plus the majority of the world’s capsaicin now comes from Japan and India.

The uncomplicated flowers, which appear inside the forked notches of the plants’ stems, are typically white or greenish-white, and some are tinged with violet.

The flowers can appear as solitary blooms or in groups of two or three. Behind the pollinated flowers, the ovary swells into a shiny green, pod-like, many-seeded berry, which ripens to turn into red, orange, yellow, or purple. This fruit varies in size, shape, and pungency with each and every distinctive species and variety Some are grown as ornamentals with purple blossoms and purple chili pods.

Early South and Central American cultures put to use chilis medicinally to treat toothaches, and to cure colic and colds (and as a preventative). Chilis, like cocoa beans, were also employed as currency amongst a lot of southern tribes. The Aztec mixed chili peppers with wild honey, spirulina (a blue-green alga), and cornmeal to create ceremonial foods. All through the desert Southwest, these chilis were favoured native foods and medicines.

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