[CH] Chile Powder
Nels Peterson (npkp4jp@polarcomm.com)
Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:56:33 -0600
Dumb question time:
I have a nice bunch of anaheim peppers that I'm drying in my garage. I
pulled the plants just before it froze, hung them in my garage to hopefully
ripen. They hung there green till I turned on the heater in the garage.
Once the warm air started hitting them they turned bright red and are drying
very well -- not fast, but well. When making chile-powder, do most of you
fellow CH'ers take seeds out or grind them with the seeds?
I have just about what will amount to a 5 gal bucket (20+ litres to the
metrically inclined) of cayennes drying the same way. We use only about
5 -8 ounces per year of cayenne powder for cooking. Any ideas on what else
we could use them for? I don't dare add them to the anaheims for chile
powder -- would catch too much H### from the non-CH persuasion in the
family.
We're basking in 60 degree F weather the past few days. Had nearly 20
inches of snow in late October, all melted and we've been mowing lawns and
picking up leaves. Even got the garden tilled for next year!
Nels in ND