100% Pure Black Pepper Powder

Botanical: Piper nigrum
Common name: Lada Hitam (Malaysia/Indonesia), poivre noir (French), schwarzer Pfeffer (German), svartpeppar (Sweedish)
Quantity: 50 grams

Description
To produce black pepper, immature green berries are picked, briefly fermented, and then dried. During drying the pepper shrivels, becomes wrinkled, and turns black or dark brown.
Black pepper is widely used in almost all cuisines of the world. Black pepper has a fine, fruity, pungent fragrance with warm, woody, and lemony notes. The taste is hot and biting with a clean, penetrating aftertaste. Black pepper complements all savory foods, whether included in cooking or added at the table.

Good on
red meats, soup, game, strongly flavored seafood, and egg dishes when used in moderation

Medical benefit
Powder formed black pepper has a stimulating effect on the digestive organs and produces an increased flow of salvia and gastric juices. It is a good home remedy for digestive disorders. Black Pepper is beneficial in the treatment of cold and fever. A pinch of finely ground pepper mixed with honey taken twice day is effective in amnesia or dullness of intellect. Pepper is an effective remedy for cough caused due to throat irritation. Pepper is useful in pyorrhoea or pus in the gums. Powdered pepper and salt mixture when massaged over the gums relieves inflammation.

Star Anise

Botanical Name: Illicium verum
Common name: Chinese Anise, Badiana, Badian, Badain, Aniseed Stars

Description
Star Anise is the dried star shaped fruit of an evergreen tree native to China. It has a strong licorice flavor and aroma. Star Anise is not related to the common Anise, but it does have a similar scent and flavor. It is more pungently liquorice-like and has a distinctive sweet note. Star anise is used whole to flavor soups and some Chinese pork recipes and used ground in some poultry dishes. It is an ingredient in Chinese 5-spice. In recent years, the spice has been rediscovered by Western chefs and is often added to fish stews.

Uses with
Cinnamon, Coriander, Fennel, Garlic & Soy Sauce. The Chinese often add star anise to poultry and pork dishes; it is also a key ingredient in five-spice powder. The Vietnamese use the spice in their beef soup, pho. It is an ideal flavoring for roast chicken, and goes well with braised fish, scallops, and in clear soups.

Attributed Medicinal Properties
Like anise, star anise has carminative, stomachic, stimulant and diuretic properties. In the East it is used to combat colic and rheumatism. It is a common flavouring for medicinal teas, cough mixtures and pastilles