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| Thanks to this forum and Peppermania.com for seeds and encouragement last winter. My pepper crop was wonderful. You see a picture of the habaneros at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancybeetoo/tags/habanero/
I am now making hot sauce and have a canning question that I haven't found an answer for. I made a sauce that I like by reading the ingredients on the bottles. Its roughly equal parts habaneros, jalapenos, carrot and onion with enough vinegar to make a slurry. The thing is, I would like to can it rather than freeze it, but I don't know if there is enough vinegar in it to be safe. I have a canning book from the UGA http://www.uga.edu/setp/book.html which is the latest information from scientists on safe canning. In there the proportion of vinegar in the pickling recipes ranges from about a third cup per pint of finished product and up to a cup per pint. Right now my sauce is at the low end of the that range. So, I could bump up the vinegar, or pressure can, or freeze. Freezing makes them harder to give away as gifts.
Any advice? Favorite recipes? |
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- Posted by oregonwoodsmoke 5 OR Sunset 1A (My Page) on Sun, Oct 31, 10 at 22:35
| Your best bet to get an answer on the safety of home canning is at the "harvest" forum here on Garden Web. |
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- Posted by northerner_on Z5A ONCanada (My Page) on Mon, Nov 1, 10 at 4:57
| Both my husband and I come from countries where hot pepper sauces are staples and we never refrigerate or freeze them. Yesterday I made two small bottles of pepper sauce: one with red cayenne peppers to which I added tumeric and mustard powder, horse radish, salt, and vinegar, the other simply blended Tobago Seasoning peppers with salt and vinegar. Last week I sliced cayenne peppers and added enough vinegar to cover them. I also pack small peppers in jars and cover with vinegar. I have done this and used them as gifts for several years with no ill-effects. I believe once you have added enough vinegar to make a slurry, and/or cover the fruit, you should be O.K. I sterilize my bottles in a hot water bath before filling as a precaution. |
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