Harvest of Tasmanian Mountain Pepper
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Harvest of Bronzewing Farm's Tasmanian Pepper Berries is labour-intensive as it is all done by hand. Consequently this unique Australian spice is not cheap like regular black pepper, but Tasmanian Mountain Pepper has no botanical relationship to black pepper, and the flavours and aromas are just exquisite.
Very helpful video (:
Interesting process! What season do they fruit in?
Corey - they flower for several weeks in Spring, grow and ripen through the Summer and are finally ready for harvest in late Autumn/early Winter. You know when they are ready for harvest when all the berries look dark black. Even so, berries picked in the first part of the harvest mostly retain their stems. Berries picked later mostly leave the stems on the plant. Some people like them with stems, some without - so all consumers can be catered for...
How would you describe the taste? And in their natural environment, how likely is it that birds spread the seed? I'm looking to plant one of these in my yard.
Derick, the flavour is slightly sweet on the fore-palate and then after about 10 seconds the back-palate is left with a lingering 'full mouthed' hot-spicy taste. In cooking and alcoholic drinks like gin, this gives a 'deep mouth-feel' to whatever it is you've added it to. A more detailed analysis of the flavour characteristics can be found here: www.tasmanianmountainpepper.com/devilishly-tasty.html
With regards to 'bird-spread' - the answer in Tasmania is 'definitely' - the Currawong birds eat huge amounts and actually regurgitate the unpalatable seeds as a small 'sausage-like' bolus. Consequently we have Tasmanian pepperberry plants growing in the forks of trees, in tree-ferns, etc. Thanks Andrew
Can these be bought in the USA?
Sorry for the late reply Vickie. We do ship to the US. You can buy at www.pepper-shop.tasmanianmountainpepper.com/ Regards Andrew