Show it has always pepper amused me remarked a botanical expert to talk ini of their preference for black apper over white and the various explanations they rive for the little do they know that both black and white pepper prow upon tho tame shrub over the pepper seed erows a black covering the seed itself is white or nearly so to make black pepper the aeed and its external covering are ground up while the white pepper ie the seed alone ground up white pepper is milder than black the greater part of the pungency being in the covering A pepper made of the coverings alone would be euca to uee a slang term hot stuff that it would burn the mouth the black covering of the pepper seed contains the oil washington star |