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White pepper   /waɪt pˈɛpər/   Listen
White pepper

noun
1.
Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.  Synonyms: black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum.
2.
Pepper ground from husked peppercorns.






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"White pepper" Quotes from Famous Books



... fry out half a pound of fat ham; then add one chopped onion, one bay leaf, six cloves, one blade of mace, two tablespoonfuls of chopped celery tops, a tablespoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of white pepper, and one quart of ordinary soup stock. Simmer for half an hour. Now put the turtle stock on the fire; when hot strain the seasoning into it; remove the turtle from the other crock, cut it up, and add to the stock; now add ...
— Fifty Soups • Thomas J. Murrey

... detected mixed with genuine pepper, is a fact sufficiently known.[104] Such an adulteration may prove, in many instances of household economy, exceedingly vexatious and prejudicial to those who ignorantly make use of the spurious article. I have examined large packages of both black and white pepper, by order of the Excise, and have found them to contain about 16 per cent. of this artificial compound. The spurious pepper is made up of oil cakes (the residue of lintseed, from which the oil has been pressed,) common clay, and a portion of Cayenne pepper, formed in a mass, ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum

... flung into three large copper kettles, white pepper and cod-fish were added, and fires were lighted ...
— The Corsair King • Mor Jokai

... Boil the macaroni in salt and water for twenty minutes, strain off the water, and cut it into pieces about 1 inch long; put these into the soup, and simmer for ten minutes. Just before serving, flavour with salt, a dust of white pepper, and a few ...
— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909)

... me also yonder big bowl of porcelain." So he gave it to him and the broker betook himself to a hashish-seller, of whom he bought two ounces of concentrated Roumi opium and equal-parts of Chinese cubebs, cinnamon, cloves, cardamoms, ginger, white pepper and mountain skink[FN29]; and, pounding them all together, boiled them in sweet olive-oil; after which he added three ounces of male frankincense in fragments and a cupful of coriander-seed; and, macerating the whole, made it into an electuary ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton



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