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Fragrant and powerful, the bonney hot pepper has a long and celebrated culinary history in Barbados. Richard Lignon, in his "History of the Barbadoes (1647)", described the two varieties of peppers he found on the island: "The one so like a child's corall, as not to be discerned at the distance of two paces, a crimson and scarlett mixt; the fruit about three inches long and shines more than the best pollisht corall. The other, of the same colour and glistening as much but shaped like a large button of a cloak; both of one and the same quality; both violently strong and growing on a little shrub not bigger than a gooseberry bush."
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