[magslinger]

That reminds of another variation on my vegetable soup recipe. Substitute 8-10 whole allspice berries for the japone peppers. That was the secret ingredient in great grandmother's soup. Mom didn't know that the "black peas" were actually allspice berries.

Allspice matches very well with beef as well as peas. I keep a pepper mill stocked with the whole berries and use it in meat loaves and in rubs intended for beef.

Don't bite down on the black peas, they bite back.

[hattend]

I’ll have to have my wife send me some spices from the lower 48. my “store” here in the bush doesn’t have allspice berries or japone peppers.