🌶️ Beaver Dam – Historical Hungarian pepper with a mild bite

The Beaver Dam is a special Capsicum annuum With not only a delicious taste, but also a piece of history. This old Hungarian variety was developed in the 1912 taken by the family of Hungarian immigrant Joe Hussli to Beaver Dam in Wisconsin (USA), where the pepper eventually got its current name.

The large, elongated fruits have a characteristic horn-shaped and ripen from light to light green to a beautiful reddish color. With approximately 500–1,000 SHU Beaver Dam is only mildly spicy: enough to provide a pleasant warm accent, without the sharpness overwhelming the flavor.

The fruits are firm and crisp and combine a lightly sweet, full-bodied pepper flavor with a mild spicy aftertaste. Because of this, Beaver Dam is not only interesting to collectors of historical peppers, but also an excellent culinary pepper.

🌱 Cultivation info
Type: Capsicum annuum
Provenance: Hungary / Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (USA)
Sharpness: approx. 500–1,000 SHU – mild
Fruits: large, elongated and horn-shaped
Length: usually approx. 12–18 cm
Color: green → red-colored
Taste: slightly sweet, aromatic, crunchy and mildly spicy
Plant: growing strongly and producing a lot
Sowing: February–March indoors
Location: warm and sunny
Pollination: open pollination – not completely isolated, which makes cross-pollination possible

🍴 Use
Beaver Dam is particularly versatile in the kitchen. The large fruits are delicious to eat. raw to eat, to fry, grill or roast. Furthermore, due to their size, they are excellently suited for fill with for example minced meat, rice, cheese or vegetables.

Also for Soups, salsas and stews This pepper is very suitable. In Hungarian style, fully ripe fruits can also be dried and processed into a mild and aromatic paprika powder.

A pepper with history
Beaver Dam is more than just a mild-flavored pepper variety. The variety is considered a culturally valuable heritage in the United States and is included in the Ark of Taste From Slow Food. The pepper is still strongly associated with Beaver Dam in Wisconsin.

📸 The displayed plants and peppers are from our own cultivation.

🌶️🇭🇺 Beaver Dam – a historic pepper with large, flavorful fruits, a mild spiciness and more than a century of history.