Cubeb pepper otherwise known as Comet’s tail pepper, tailed pepper, or by its botanical name Piper cubeba. It mainly grows in Java and Sumatra and looks like black pepper with the stalks attached.
The taste is describe as a cross between Jamacia pepper and black pepper. It is descriptively describe as pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent.
The Cubeb Pepper has had an extremely colourful history. It has been the feature of infertility remedies and “magic” spices in early times and in medicinal drugs. In European cuisine it is candied and eat as aromatic confectionary. As one of the valuable spices in the Middle Ages it was ground and used as a seasoning in meats and in sauces. Cubeb pepper reached its way to Africa during this period and in Moroccan cuisine it is used in pastries such as markouts (diamonds of semolina with honey & dates). It is widely use in Indonesian cuisine.
In it became one of the ingredients patented in an anti-ageing range of products by Shiseido, a well known Japenese cosmetics company.
In a Swiss company used a compound found in Cubeb oil for its patented Cubebol as a cooling and refreshing agent. This has applications for cooling and refreshing effects ranging from chewing gum to toothpaste to sorbets.
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