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Cayenne pepper   /kˌaɪˈɛn pˈɛpər/   Listen
Cayenne pepper

noun
1.
Plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red.  Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper.
2.
Ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum.  Synonyms: cayenne, red pepper.
3.
A long and often twisted hot red pepper.  Synonym: cayenne.






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"Cayenne pepper" Quotes from Famous Books



... of shrimp; one tablespoonful flour; one tablespoonful butter; one tablespoonful catsup; one tablespoonful cream; one cup hot soup stock; two yolks eggs; salt, cayenne pepper and grated onion. Heat butter, add flour, then other ingredients. Cook until smooth, then add shrimp. Fill the ramikins with mixture and cover with cracker crumbs and ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various

... of the pharmacopceia we can select substances that if administered to a healthy person will produce almost any known form of disease thus: brandy, cayenne pepper and quinine, will induce inflammatory fever; scammony and ipecac will cause cholera morbus; nitre, calomel and opium, will provoke typhoid or typhus fever; digitalis will cause Asiatic, or spasmodic cholera; cod liver oil and sulphur promote scurvy, and all the ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... overseer to keep them at work. If he does not do it effectually, he is krissed and thrown overboard. If these miserable creatures jump into the sea they spear them in the water. They row in relays, night and day; and to keep them awake, cayenne pepper is rubbed into their eyes or into cuts dealt them ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... father, clad in an old grey gown and a black cap, awaiting his supper at the table. A clean cloth was spread before him, with knife, fork, and spoon, salt-cellar, pepper-box, glass, and pewter ale-pot. Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... the birds to the soup, and boil gently for two hours. Pour a little of the liquid over a quarter of a pound of bread crumbs, and when they are well soaked put it in a mortar with the white flesh of the birds, and pound the whole to a smooth paste: add a pinch of ground mace, salt, and a little cayenne pepper; press the mixture through a sieve, and boil once more, adding a pint of boiling cream; thicken with a little flour mixed in cold milk; ...
— Fifty Soups • Thomas J. Murrey


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