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"Christine Dabney" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:56:16 +0200, (Victor Sack)
> wrote:
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>>Mordechai Housman > wrote:
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>>> Whoa! There are TWO different types of paprika? I never knew this. Can
>>> you please explain?
>>
>>There are no fewer than seven major kinds of Hungarian paprika and none
>>are really hot - even the hotter ones are not very much hotter than
>>ordinary black pepper: különleges ("special", only slightly hot),
>>csipösségmentes (not hot at all), csemege ("gastronomical", not hot),
>>édesnemes ("noble sweet"), fél-édes ("semi-sweet"), rózsa ("pink",
>>fairly hot), and erös (hot).
>>
>>For cooking, only the sweeter varieties are supposed to be used, with
>>édesnemes often being preferred. The hotter varieties (rózsa and erös)
>>are normally added to the already cooked dishes. BTW, "sweet" means the
>>absence of heat, it doesn't indicate any actual sweetness.
>>
>>Victor
>
> And then there are the Spanish paprikas.....which are also marvelous.
> Some of those are smoked...
>
> I am addicted to those...
>
> Christine

Smoked paprikas???? I must try them!
BTW some months ago I went in an arabian shop here in Turin to buy some
spices. I have found a very very hot paprika. It seems hot chili pepper !

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