Chile Pancake Syrup Recipe

From: George Dark gdark@dfw.net

Date: Mon, 2 Sep 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 skin. I do
this by placing the half-pod on a dinner plate and scraping the flesh out
with a table spoon. 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 flesh.

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

Put the NM chile, the jalapeno, and the crushed garlic together with 1/2
cup cider vinegar into a blender. Rev it up until it is liquified.

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

Stir the pectin together with 3/4 cup water in a separate pan. Bring to a
boil, stirring constantly. Boil for one minute. Start this process before
the sugar mixture is done, so you can put it in quickly. That is what your
third hand is for.

Add the pectin to the chile-sugar mixture. Add also the grapefruit juice.
Stir it thoroughly, 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 heat, but it will have a very pronounced chile flavor.
It should be of a suitable consistency. If not, 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 imagine. 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
flavor. That level will vary greatly between individuals. George Dark
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