Part 11 (2/2)

Is the Mace used as a spice?

Yes, it is separated fro, and dried in the sun It is brought over in flakes of a yellow color, smooth and net-like, as you see it in the shops Its taste is warent; its smell, aro, and also yields an oil

_Pungent_, of a hot, biting taste

What is Pimento or Allspice?

The dried unripe berry or fruit of a tree growing in great abundance in Jamaica, particularly on the northern side of that island, on hilly spots, near the coast; it is also a native of both Indies The Pirows to the height of twenty or thirty feet; the leaves are all of a deep, shi+ning green, and the blossom consists of numerous branches of small, white, aro; there is scarcely in the vegetable world any treePimento about the month of July, when it is in full blooather the spice?

About theafter the blossoathered by the hand; one laborer on the tree, eive eenerally wo the berries They are then spread out thinly, and exposed to the sun at its rising and setting for soin to dry, they are frequently ed, and laid on cloths to preserve theereen to a deep reddish brown color Great quantities are annually imported

What are its uses?

It forreeable essential oil, and is accounted the best and mildest of common spices

_Essential_, pure; extracted so as to contain all the virtues of the spice in a very small compass

Why is it called Allspice?

Because it has been supposed to cos, and cinnamon; the French call it _round clove_, fro somewhat like that spice

What is Pepper?

The product of a creeping shrub, growing in several parts of the East Indies, Asia, and Arow, and what part of the shrub is used?

Pepper is the fruit of this shrub, and grows in bunches or clusters, at first green; as it ripens it beco been exposed for soathered before perfectly ripe,) it becomes black, as in the condition we have it There are two sorts, the black and the white

What is the White Pepper?

The white pepper is merely the black deprived of its outside skin For this purpose the finest red berries are selected, and put in baskets to steep, either in running water, or in pits dug for the purpose, near the banks of rivers Soround In any of these situations, they swell and burst their skins, fro between the hands, or fanning