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The exact origin of the soup cannot be accurately pinpointed now, but since the pepper, the main ingredient of the soup was not introduced to China until the Tang Dynasty. The soup was dubbed came into being after that, around Song Dynasty. One theory is that soup with pepper originated from the Huizong period in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
Pepper Pot is a thick stew of beef tripe, vegetables, pepper and other seasonings. The soup was first made in West Africa and the Caribbean before being brought to North America through slave trade and made into a distinctively Philadelphian dish by colonial Black women during the nineteenth century.
Pepperpot or pepper pot may refer to: A pepper shaker; Several types of soup including Guyana pepperpot, an Amerindian dish popular in Guyana and the Caribbean; Pepper pot soup, a thick stew of beef tripe, vegetables, pepper and other seasonings; Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market (1811), an American painting
Traditionally, the dish is made using wiri wiri chilli peppers (a Capsicum frutescens cultivar native to Guyana) but due to low availability outside of the country, scotch bonnet or habanero peppers are commonly accepted substitutes due to their similar spice level and fruitiness.
Origin Type Distinctive ingredients and description Aguadito: Peru: Chunky Peruvian green soup usually made with cilantro, carrot, peas, potatoes and can have chicken, hen, mussels or fish. It also contains ají amarillo (yellow chili pepper) and various other vegetables and spices. The green color is due to cilantro.
There is a record from Tamil texts of Greeks purchasing large sacks of black pepper from India, and many recipes in the 1st-century Roman cookbook Apicius make use of the spice. The trade in spices lessened after the fall of the Roman Empire, but demand for ginger, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg revived the trade in later centuries. [19]
"Peasants' soup" is a catch-all term for soup made by combining a diverse—and often eclectic—assortment of ingredients. Variations on peasants' soup are popular in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Africa. Philadelphia pepper pot soup is a Philadelphia specialty, is traditionally made with tripe. [22]
The scientific species name C. chinense or C. sinensis ("Chinese capsicum") is a misnomer. All Capsicum species originated in the New World. [7] Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), a Dutch botanist, erroneously named the species in 1776, because he believed it originated in China due to their prevalence in Chinese cuisine; it however was later found to be introduced by earlier European ...