I returned to The Jam and Jelly Lady's cannery (Tuesday) to attended a master canning course for tomatoes. We made salsa (which I already talked about ), Italian sauce (Or if you are Italian--Red Gravy) and a Jamaican Jerk Tomato sauce.
Since we are not quite into tomato season we used a good quality can of tomato sauce for the basis of our sauce recipes. We canned canned? We re-can-ted? Haha. Besides it was for educational purposes...
The smell of all the spices was divine! yum!
Lined up like little delicious saucy soldiers
Jamican Jerk Sauce
Holy habenero's batman!
Ok- actually a scotch bonnet (just doesn't have the same ring to it). The scotch bonnet is a milder, sweeter form of a habenero. Um yeah if sweeter and milder is akin to levels in hell. **Ding, ding-Hell Level 1 housewares. Hell Level 2 children's toys. It doesn't matter. It's hell and it's hot. How hot?
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Ok- actually a scotch bonnet (just doesn't have the same ring to it). The scotch bonnet is a milder, sweeter form of a habenero. Um yeah if sweeter and milder is akin to levels in hell. **Ding, ding-Hell Level 1 housewares. Hell Level 2 children's toys. It doesn't matter. It's hell and it's hot. How hot?
Well peppers are rated on a Scoville scale which measures the amount of capsaicin in a pepper. You know the difference between "oh what a tasty and delicious green bell pepper:" and "OMG the agony! Please kill me now!" kind of pain. Some peppers are so hot they will blister your skin. How bad-ass is that?
Being the science nerd that I am I found this cool periodic table of peppers from mild to insane.
Being the science nerd that I am I found this cool periodic table of peppers from mild to insane.
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| http://www.pepperfriends.com/forum/topic/2758-scoville-scale/ |
For the non science nerds you can refer to this chart
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| http://www.peterpiperspepperspray.com/scoville_heat_units/ |
But I digress. Getting back to the Jamaican Jerk sauce. It is freaking HOT! Wear gloves when handling these peppers. Do not touch your face, eyes or any other sensitive areas. Because it is gonna hurt like, well, HELL!
Looks like molten lava!
Maybe I should label it with a skull and crossbones and surrounded by flames?
Here is a link to a Jerk Tomato sauce recipe (not quite the same as the one we canned)
What kind of recipe uses Jamaican Jerk sauce? How about shredded beef and some rice?
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| http://www.mycubanrecipes.com/recipes/beef/aporreado-de-tasajo/ |
Or Jerk Pizza?
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| http://commen-tate.blogspot.com/2011/12/sweet-jamaican-jerk-pizza.html |
Not sure if I am brave enough to try these!
Yummy! While I'd always rather use fresh tomatoes, I never knew you could re-can something like that? I suppose in a pinch you could use a high quality all natural sauce and add your own ingredients to make your own sauce blend? Interesting! Thanks for sharing!!
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