SC - Jerky - OOP or...?

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A response from my lord, about his penchant for hot pepper sauces.  After
he sent this to me, he said last night that he would be interested in
trying to find period recipies for hot sauces, my first thought was the
powdre forte.  Any other thoughts?
Christianna

- --------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "dallas fox" <deadtongue at hotmail.com>
To: mermayde at juno.com
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:19:35 PDT
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: SC - Feast Enhancement Kit
Message-ID: <19990412141936.44493.qmail at hotmail.com>

>Thought I'd let you answer His Grace - 
>Christy
>
>>Well, my lord (Damon Fox, called Deadtongue) carries three kinds of 
hot sauces, in a tasteful brown crock that we keep in the feastgear 
box for that purpose.

>Presumably all different? Based on ginger, pepper, and grains of 
paradise perhaps?

Different, yes, but no ginger or grains of Paradise.  These are 
commercial concoctions, I have 3 levels of burn from 3 types of 
chilies.  
I have a green sauce, Tabasco brand Jalapeno, made in the same 
fashion as their usual sauce.  It has LOTS of flavor, and is very 
mild, from the perspective of a chili head.  It sure looks funny on 
eggs. (Paging Dr. Suess...)
There is a sauce by Calido Chilie Traders called Bessos Del Fuego, 
and it is a cayenne\tabasco mix.  It is a straight forward sauce, in 
the tabasco tradition, but the blending of the two types produces a 
sustained flavor that is pretty hot, but nothing special.
I have a private label sauce called Batch #37, with a second name of 
"Pain is Good" and a picture of a fellow howling.  It is descriptive 
in a way that becomes apparent when you taste it.  This is a 
vegatable sauce, it is based on carrots and tomatoes in, but uses 
habenero chilies for its heat, and it is fierce.  It has the most 
flavor of any that I carry, but the burn just keeps on giving.  It 
has enough heat to bring on endorphin bursts, and will either calm 
pain in other parts of the body, of give you a significant high from 
repeated doses.  If used in moderation, i.e. a drop in a 12 oz bowl, 
it is noticable, but mostly for its flavor.  3 drops will produce a 
different sensation, and more than that is only foolish. 
You will note that all of these are based around capsicum 'peppers', 
and while they are very late, they are in period.  Columbus went 
looking for a shortcut to the spice trade, and when he got to the 
West Indies, he found... chilies.  He said of one island that 3 
caravels could be loaded each year.  The first crop of chilies grown 
in Europe was in 1493.  In less than 100 years, they had become so 
widespread that many people thought they were native to India.  Which 
amuses me greatly, seeing as how that is where Columbus thought he 
was. 
Damon.

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