You can eat "Schinus molle", berries of the California or Peruvian Peppertree. Also called: American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree,peppercorn tree, Californian pepper tree, pirul and Peruvian mastic.
It may be best to avoid the similar fruit from the Schinus terebinthifolius. Other names for Schinus terebinthifolius are: Brazilian pepper, Florida holly, Christmas berry, pepper tree
Family: Anacardiaceae (cashew, sumac, poison ivy, mango). A ban has been placed on importing pink pepper corns from France because their source, the baies rose plant, may be a Schinus terebinthifolius.
Neither pepper plant produces a true pepper.
Whole Foods seems to think so. They sold me a grinder filled with pp for $6.99. OK?!?
As far as I'm aware, salt mills and pepper mills work by using exactly the same mechanisms, so it is safe to use one in the other.
Do you mean pimentos as in allspice, the spicy, hard brown seeds a little bigger than peppercorns? If so, yes, you do grind them like pepper.
Black pepper consists of ground dried peppercorns, which are the tiny fruits of the pepper plant Piper nigrum.
Black pepper
Peugeot make a wide range of electric pepper mills in a variety of sizes and bright colors. They come with easy push button operation and an adjustable grind level. This allows the owner of this product to grind their pepper to the exact level they require.
Cracked pepper is made from peppercorns which have been broken apart or "cracked," but are still relatively large. Ground pepper is made from breaking down or "grinding" peppercorns further, such that the particles are made finer.
Black pepper can be served as whole peppercorns, and coarsely or finely ground.
Yes one can substitute black pepper for black peppercorns. Peppercorns are essentially pepper in the non ground up form. One may also ground the pepper corns to make them into regular small granuled pepper or just substitute the size in a recipe when using peppercorns.
Fresh pepper in a recipe usually refers to freshly ground peppercorns.
a mill that grind wheat into bread
Although there is no difference in flavor, some electric pepper mills allow you to choose the size of the granules it produces from peppercorns.
You get smaller bits of pepper.
by grind....do you mean salt or pepper?