Re: [CH] Looking for recipe
Jens Backman (dibbler@home.se)
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 02:37:18 +0200
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From: "xtremely fast" <xtremely.fast@prodigy.net>
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [CH] Looking for recipe
> such a recipe be
> > posted???) that involved layering chopped red chiles in salt, letting
them
> > sit at room temp for a week or so, and then adding vinegar. I can't find
> > the damn recipe anywhere. .
> >
> > This is one of my favorite ways to preserve small red chiles. It's also
a
> > very efficient way to get ridiculously large quantities of red chiles
into
> > small jars.
>
> I just visited the Tobasco bottling plant at Avery Island last month and
> what you are describing is basically the recipe for Tobasco sauce. They
mix
> the peppers in wooden kegs, put in lots of salt [the salt comes from a
salt
> mine on Avery Island] and let them sit for three years. They then grind
the
> cured peppers making a "mash" out of it and cook it with vinegar. Then
they
> strain and bottle it and you have Tobasco sauce. If you are ever in the
> area, the trip is worth it, and its free. They sell the left over
''mash''
> to be used in lots of other things. One use is in Ben-Gay and Deep Heat
> rubs. The old pepper mash provides the heat.
>
> Emeril cooked some of those peppers the other night but he used water at
> first. Peppers, salt [lots] and water. Boiled it all for a while and
then
> added some vinegar, boiled a little longer and then cooled it and put it
in
> bottles. Maybe you could check his web site for the exact recipe.
>
> Y'all have a good-un now.......
> Eddie
>
>
>