RE: [CH] What spices were in Calvin's Powder?

Frank J. Hashek (fhashek@comcast.net)
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:45:05 -0400 

 Folks,

As I was attaching a file to a msg to someone else, I noticed that I have a
scanned copy of a note from Calvin, with an ingredient listing, by percent
content and some discussion of the recipe.

If anyone wants a copy, please wrtie offline, as I do not think the list
will accept attachments.

Planting time is coming!

Frank
Do not ask a dog to watch your food!


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
[mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com] On Behalf Of Doug Irvine
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:31 PM
To: Tom Greaves
Cc: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [CH] What spices were in Calvin's Powder?

Tom Greaves wrote:
> Does anyone know what was in Calvin's Powder?  That was the best 
> tasting hot powder ever, and I just used the last that I had.
> 
> I'd like to try to make some if I can get an idea of what all was in 
> it.  I remember a few years ago where he listed about 10 peppers that 
> he had just bought for it, but it wasn't all that was in it.
> 
> Tom Greaves
> 
> 
Jim Campbell supplied a lot of the chiles that Calvin used in his mix. 
He began with his own home grown stuff from his garden beside their house.
He and I were back and forth a lot over the years, I would send him canned
salmon from here in BC. He was bitten by a snake while out on
  the job in the oil patch and it left him seriously allergic to nightshade
which precluded his even touching peppers, or potatoes, tomatoes, in short
all the various veggies of the nightshade family.
Then to compound his problems he ran into a huge partner kefuffle, and he
told me that he was just going to move to another location. So it was that
he disappeared, and he has not re-appeared.  If you have one of his little
packages with the ingredient list, Jim will attempt to build the same
powder, and a couple of folks were going to find one and let Jim know. I
know that I did not keep one of his ingredient lists, but someone out there
must have one.
Cheers,

Doug in BC