Monk`s pepper, whole, Old Spice Office, Ingo Holland

Once again a spice with the designation pepper in the name, without being a pepper. Interestingly, it belongs to the large verbena family. Chaste mud seeds or agnus castus, not spicy. Outside the kitchen, the chaste mud fruits are honored in gynecology. It got the name monk`s pepper because it supposedly works as an anaphrodisiac, which is the exact opposite of an aphrodisiac. The monks in the monastery were given the so-called agnus castus. In Latin, Agnus stands for lamb, castus means something like pure and chaste. So always be careful when cooking that you don`t use too much of it. It goes well with dark meat such as game and game poultry.