[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2005/5/9]
On 5/9/05, James Bywater <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Does anybody have a use for the Scotch Bonnet peppers I have growing > on my window sill? >=20 > How do you use them without inuring your mouth/digestive system/brain? >=20 > James >=20 When I was doing field research in French Guiana we had a few pepperbushes on the -rainforest- compound whose small peppers were too hot to even try in the smallest amounts, even without the seeds. The local bushmen used them by putting the whole pepper in a jar of vegetable oil and then dripping the resulting oil over their dishes. This was still way too hot for me (ie burning holes in your tongue kind of screws up the whole taste sensation), so I put one of those peppers in a jar of vinegar and used the resulting vinegar. Still very hot, but bearably so, and as an added bonus you actually get the red pepper taste. On a side note, these bushmen used enormous amounts of salt too, so my guess is they couldn't taste anything anyway, and might as well go for the BURN BURN BURN sensation. RichardThere's stuff above here
Generated at 00:00 on 12 May 2005 by mariachi 0.41