"Bird peppers" refers to a type of spicy chili pepper that is often small in size. It is called "bird pepper" because birds are known to eat these peppers and spread their seeds.
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Sometimes I add green curry paste,
hot bird pepper & a 1/2 tsp of brown sugar.
As we walked along the hot and humid path, we encountered a Malaysian jungle house with a perennial
bird pepper plant growing in front of it, plus mini-plantations of poles entwined with black pepper vines (Piper nigrum) and some nice specimens of Piper betle, the pepper used for its leaf, not its berry.
'» Chiltepins are still harvested in the wild and sold in Mexican markets, though native colonies
of bird peppers in Texas are becoming rare.
Jefferson grew various forms of Bells, Bullnose, sweet, and cayenne pepper (Capsicum annuum), as well as
Texas bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var.
Obviously, they can just be eaten raw, although many of the really hot varieties such
as bird peppers and members of the chinense species are simply too hot to be eaten by themselves.
«They're
bird peppers in Trinidad but nigger peppers here,» explained Anne Marie.
In letters to Jefferson, Dr. Brown noted that Spaniards and American Indians
used bird pepper as Europeans do salt.
1 tablespoon crushed
African bird peppers, or substitute chiltepins, pequins, or ground cayenne chile
From Guam's Spanish heritage comes this traditional side dish that is often spiced up
with bird peppers.
Most bird peppers are undomesticated varieties of four species: annuum, baccatum, chinense, and frutescens.
15 Key or Mexican limes 1 cup salt 10 whole
bird peppers such as piquins or chiltepins or 2 habaneros, halved 3 cups water 1/2 cup vinegar 1/2 cup sugar 2 cardamom pods 1 tablespoon whole cloves 5 allspice berries 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 4 cloves garlic, sliced 1 bunch green onions, white part only, chopped
The
Garden Bird pepper is a small, hardy Thai pepper that only grows to about 1» in length.
Given the similarities
among bird peppers, sometimes it's quite difficult to distinguish what is a chiltepín and what is not.
Jinx and Jeff Morgan, owners of the Sugar Mill Hotel and columnists for Bon Appetit magazine, told me that when they moved to the BVI fourteen years ago, they thought the
multicolored bird peppers so pretty that they used sprigs of the chiles to garnish plates in their restaurant.
The chiltepin and
related bird peppers, the wild forms of the cultivated species, are known to chileheads, but their variations in pod shape and size are not readily apparent.
Jefferson planted
bird pepper seed in the garden and with a dibble in flowerpots, and relayed the seed to Bernard McMahon in 1813.
«A mixture of sliced cucumbers, shallots, or onions, cut very small, a little lime juice, and Madeira wine, with a few pods of
bird pepper well mashed, and mixed with the liquor, is reckoned an unfailing stimulant to the appetite in the West Indies, and is called man - dram,» wrote William Rhind in A History of the Vegetable Kingdom (London: Blackie & Son, 1868).
We're here at the 1,000 foot - long garden at Monticello, where tradition is being preserved by continuing to grow Thomas Jefferson's favorite plant varieties, including cayennes and chilipiquins, which Jefferson called «
Texas bird peppers.»
The
hot Bird peppers she would make into a paste with garlic, ginger and other spices and spread into the body cavity of a fish.
It turns out that Bahamians also
use bird peppers — tiny, incendiary chiles the size of a small fingernail.
The chiles in some of these sauces vary from mild jalapeños to fiery habaneros and
African bird peppers, as found in Mad Dog BBQ Sauce.
-- Tiffany A: Hello Tiffany: I haven't seen any test results for this variety, which is a Capsicum frutescens, but
bird peppers generally test at 60,000 + SHU, making...
Crossing studies indicate that the
wild bird pepper is genetically the most closely related taxon to domesticated C. annuum (Emboden 1961; Smith and Heiser 1957; Pickersgill 1971).
This is the classic Guamanian hot sauce that contains the doni sali variety
of bird peppers.
Otherwise known
as bird pepper, Guinea spice and simply red pepper, it is famed for its hot and spicy taste and its pungent, distinctive aroma.
The bird pepper has the smaller leaf, and it is by the Indians better esteemed than the other.»
It is close related to
the bird pepper, but is distinguished by the characteristic branching of its stalks, or pedicels, as well as by the shape of its fruit.
The smell is very strong like
a Bird pepper (Tabasco).
There are two hot chiles used in the BVI — Scotch bonnets and
bird peppers.
Bird peppers, also known as Chiltepins, are swallowed whole in Trinidad and Sonora, Mexico to combat indigestion, while in Russia the pods are steeped in — what else?
Cayenne pepper, which is now much used at our tables, is the fruit of Capsicum baccatum [actually, Capsicum annuum] of Linnaeus, (
Bird pepper) and differs not materially in its effects from that of the species here figured, for which it is frequently substituted.
I am enamored of
the bird peppers,...
I am enamored of
the bird peppers, and particularly the chiltepin, which looks more like a red peppercorn than a chile pepper.
It is a very small variety of «
bird pepper.»
I bought some frozen goat peppers and
some bird peppers that Flo had picked off the bush that grew right outside the Pink Store.
Kenneth went on to give me detailed recipes that use goat and
bird peppers, and suggested I eat at his restaurant upon my return.
The other peppers illustrated are fat pork pepper,
bird pepper, cherry pepper, and Negro pepper.