Interesting.
Quick question, does the bad taste persist when cooking the wine?
The cooking should remove all the alcohol contents and you mention cooking with it on occasion, so I would guess it’s fine?
I’m about to cook for someone who may or may not have the same taste buds.
I only ever use very small amounts so I either don’t taste it, or the taste goes away. I figure it might be genetic because I’m one of those who think cilantro tastes like soap.
They’re not quite the same flavour either. I can stomach cilantro, it just tastes a bit like someone washed it with dish soap and then didn’t rinse enough.
Ooo thank you! That looks delicious! I’ve never heard of green alder pepper before. It looks really interesting so I’m going to try and get my hands on some. The tree isn’t native to my region (I’m in Sweden) but I’m sure it can be imported.
It also goes by the names alnus viridis, green alder, dune pepper (or Poivre des dunes in French).
It is milder than pepper, with a bit of a coniferous resin taste. It looks a lot like long pepper but tastes very different.
It’s technically not a pepper, but the catkins from a variety of alnus brush.
I have no clue where you would find that in Europe and the places I know around here don’t seem to ship overseas.
Interesting.
Quick question, does the bad taste persist when cooking the wine?
The cooking should remove all the alcohol contents and you mention cooking with it on occasion, so I would guess it’s fine?
I’m about to cook for someone who may or may not have the same taste buds.
I only ever use very small amounts so I either don’t taste it, or the taste goes away. I figure it might be genetic because I’m one of those who think cilantro tastes like soap.
They’re not quite the same flavour either. I can stomach cilantro, it just tastes a bit like someone washed it with dish soap and then didn’t rinse enough.
Thanks,
Here’s the sauce recipe for your troubles wandering my questions:
Ooo thank you! That looks delicious! I’ve never heard of green alder pepper before. It looks really interesting so I’m going to try and get my hands on some. The tree isn’t native to my region (I’m in Sweden) but I’m sure it can be imported.
It also goes by the names alnus viridis, green alder, dune pepper (or Poivre des dunes in French).
It is milder than pepper, with a bit of a coniferous resin taste. It looks a lot like long pepper but tastes very different.
It’s technically not a pepper, but the catkins from a variety of alnus brush.
I have no clue where you would find that in Europe and the places I know around here don’t seem to ship overseas.
This suggests maybe Austria, but I have no clue if they even eat it over there.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299405521_Alnus_viridis_in_Europe_distribution_habitat_usage_and_threats