Re: [CH] Rather nice hotsauce found in London
Inagaddadavida (rael@ebicom.net)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:07:11 -0500
Twas Writ:
>J.B Cattley wrote:
>> Also found lime powder, made from ground-up whole dried limes. Holy
>> smokes,
>> what a flavour!
>This sounds interesting. My Lime tree is dropping dozens of limes to rot
>on the ground.
>Any ideas how to dry them easily?
Hmmm...that's an interesting idea indeed...'specially if one can actually
get a decent "real" flavor of lime from a dried product. Would be quite
nice to dump some "lime powder" into a salsa...beats having to go out and
buy a lime or two (for us poor folks who ain't got no lime tree...which
must be a really nice thing to have around the yard...I'm ramblin'...)
Anywho, I'd imagine that the lime powder was not actually made from *whole*
limes, but the rind, just as candied orange peel and the like. I'm
guessing here, but if I had a plethora o' limes sitting about, I'd peel a
dozen or so, trying to get only the peel and not the
rind/white/pithy/whatever stuff...just the green. May be easiest to
quarter or "6th" the limes and separate the innards from the peel...may
have to make up a huge batch of salsa (or fresh squeeze some lime juice for
lime-aid or a buttload of killer "lime-aritas" if one partakes of the Vine
of the Worm..) to use up the innards...or some lime chicken...something.
Anywho, dry the peel in a dehydrator or low, low-heat stove, and then grind
it up in a processor. Probably will be quite tart so you may have to add a
sweetener...or maybe not...imagine white refined sugar or blonde/unrefined
sugar would do dandy tho, if needed.
Well...just thinkin' out loud here...if you attempt the above, I'd luv to
hear 'bout the results...
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