Peppercorns Black, White or Mixed

Common black pepper comes from black peppercorns, which along with green and white peppercorns, are all the same berry, (at various stages of ripeness), from a pepper plant.  The pepper plant is a vine native to India and Indonesia.  Pink peppercorns are the berries from a rose plant in Madagascar. Peppercorns are berries that are picked as they begin to turn red.  They are immersed in boiling water ten minutes, and then dried four days to yield black peppercorns.  Mostly all are used in glass pepper mills for use at the table.  White Peppercorns are dried berries with the outer skin rubbed off.

Black Pepper is known as the "King of Spices" for three reasons: 1) It is used worldwide and accounts for 25% of the total spice trade. 2) It has so many different uses, and 3) the whole peppercorns can be stored for years without losing their aroma or taste.  Grown in India and Asia, pepper is actually unripe berries that are picked nine months after flowering. We consume more black pepper than all the other spices put together.  One of the most ancient commodities of trade between the Orient and Europe was pepper, which eventually led to its use as money.  There were times when one pound of pepper was as valuable as one pound of gold and considered a more stable form of exchange on the international market.

My Store mixes and blends are in-house recipes adapted from old-fashioned, made-from-scratch cooking, but designed for today's busy cook that are fast and easy to prepare. Many of our recipes have been handed down from my mother and grandmother!  You won't find these mixes at your local grocery store! We are confident you won't be disappointed with our products.