From: George Dark gdark@dfw.net

Engagement: Mon, 2 September 96 16:53:04 CDT
Split the green New Mexico pods and remove all seeds, seed sacs, membranes.
Steam these until the flesh can be separated from the tough tegument. I do
this by placing the half-pod on a dinner plate and scraping the flesh out
with a table spoonful. I steamed them in one of those fits-all-pots fold-up
steaming baskets. I stopped the process short of really easy separation to
preserve as much as possible the flavor of the chile figure.

Split the jalapenos and clean as supra. Chop the jalapenos into small
pieces. No need to skin these.

Put the NM chilly, the jalapeno, and the crushed garlic jointly 1/2
cup cider vinegar into a liquidiser. Rev it up until it is melted.

Heat the sugar and 1/2 cup vinegar together and bring to a churn. Boil for
about two transactions. Add the blended chile mix, and continue to boil for
three or four proceedings. Remove from passion.

Stir the pectin collectively 3/4 cup water in a separate pan. Bring to a
churn, stirring forever. Boil for one second. Start this process before
the sugar mixture is through, so you can put it in rapidly. That is what your
third hand is for.

Add the pectin to the chile-sugar assortment. Add also the grapefruit succus.
Stir it good, and allow it to cool enough for judicious tasting.

Because of the way the chile pods were eviscerated, this syrup will have
virtually no chile hotness, but it will have a very pronounced chile relish.
It should be of a suitable eubstance. I.e., maybe you could boil it
down or water it down until it is, although I do not know anything about
boiling pectin after it is added.

Now about bringing up the caps: I see by my notes that I used some hot
little peppers that are bottled in vinegar. I thought I had used pequins,
which would probably do. So would habaneros, I suppose. Whatever you use,
whip it up in the blender and stir it in. It should not alter the taste
very much unless you use so much the pain obliterates all nuances of
savour. That level will vary greatly between individuals. George Dark
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