Tabasco

[swellcat]

[Discussion from a thread in what I didn't at first notice is in the Ads section.]
 

 
. . . Tabascos have an amazing flavor!  A flavor that doesn't come through at all in the watered down vinegar Chile juice they sell.

 
That's very nice to hear.  I have a couple of foot-tall plants, so pleasant flavour surprises are welcome.
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This is an interesting, alternative-to-McInhenny historical narrative.  (If nothing else, one gets a glimpse of part of what it might've been like to be a chilehead in 1850.) 
 
"Petite Anse Sauce" sounds pretty cool, too.
 

Owing to its oleaginous character, Col. White found it impossible to preserve [Tabasco chiles] by drying; but by pouring strong vinegar on it after boiling, he has made a sauce or pepper decoction of it, which possesses in a most concentrated form all the quantities of the vegetable.  A single drop of the sauce will flavor a whole plate of soup or other food.  — http://www.montezumabrand.com/1st%20Louisiana%20Pepper%20Sauce%20Article.htm

 

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[hot stuff]

From the 2nd ed. of the Times Picayune Creole Cookbook


Interestingly enough two recipes down is this (but no actual recipe, I guess you had to buy it).

 

[swellcat]

Kind of begs the question, did the sauce used to be hotter?
 
Ancient wisdom on the oysters, (and a cravin' has been flung).
 
My mother makes tea "cakes"—cookies, actually—and she likes 'em crunchy.  One family wag has labelled them "hard tack".  Pretty funny.
 

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