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Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
Moderator:FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski
Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

2427.0. "What's in F.L. Hot Sauce??" by MAJORS::MANDALINCI () Wed May 23 1990 07:07

    In live in England now and there is no place that sells "Frank's
    Louisiana Hot Sauce". What is the primary ingredient? I'm hoping there
    is a comprable sauce - maybe Indian.
    
    From the other notes, tabasco sauce just doesn't cut it (but I might be
    desperate enough!)
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Andrea
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2427.1Try MAGGI hot sauces and condiments...TRUCKS::GKEWed May 23 1990 09:3611
    
    I've seen bottled red pepper sauce in MACRO in Fareham.  It is bottled
    under the Maggi label which is produced in Mexico.  When I lived
    in Mexico all the condiments, sauces and stock cubes were produced
    by Maggi, everything I ever used was excellent. 
    
    If you can find Maggi hot sauce I'd be willing to guess it will
    fit nicely into what you are looking for.  If not mail me, I'll
    see what I can do! ;-)
    
    gailann
2427.2BRABAM::PHILPOTTCol I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' PhilpottWed May 23 1990 11:2714
You want it hot?

mix one part Maggi red pepper sauce (or similar) with one part fish sauce
and use it to marinate fresh chillies sliced into thin roundels for about
5 days.


If *that* isn't hot enough take some dried red chillies and roast them on a 
very low heat in the oven (until just before they turn black and absorb all 
the oxygen from the atmosphere - practice a little to get the time right).
Pound to a powder in a mortar and pestle and add to the mix above (1 tablespoon 
of powder to 1 cupfull of marinade).

/. Ian .\
2427.3Frank's HS IngredientsAIMHI::QUINNWed May 23 1990 12:458
    Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce (now bottled under the Durkee label) is
    made from cayenne peppers and vinegar. (There may be other trace
    ingredients, but the peppers/vinegar are the main flavors.)
    
    I'm a *big* fan of this product -- I use it on meats, chicken, fish,
    veggies, and etc.  Even tried it on cottage cheese once.
    
    Mike
2427.4is roasting chillies safe?VIA::GLANTZMike, DTN 381-1253Wed May 23 1990 12:542
  Ian, is there any danger of noxious gases if the chillies are heated
  too quickly?
2427.5NITMOI::PESENTIOnly messages can be draggedWed May 23 1990 13:216
So, why are Frank's and Tabasco sauce so different.  

If Frank's is cayenne and vinegar, and Tabasco is Tabasco peppers and vinegar,
aged.

Is it the peppers that make so much difference, or the aging process?
2427.6BRABAM::PHILPOTTCol I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' PhilpottWed May 23 1990 13:3023
re .4:

Yes.

If you burn the chillies the effect is very similar to setting off a tear gas
grenade. My wife did it once in our apartment and the whole building had to be
evacuated for two hours: Hudson [NH] fire brigade brought in a forced draft air
blower to clear the building out.

A similar accident at the "Bangkok Oriental Cuisine" in Harris Pond led to
Mowl Wolf refunding everybody's money (well giving them free meals...) I'm
sure she is still fretting over that - but she burnt the chillies herself!

Just use the lowest heat - check them regularly - and stop just as they start 
to turn black!

/. Ian .\

(ground roasted red chillies are essentially roasted Cayenne pepper. Roasting
increases the "heat" of the pepper. The "hot" ingredient is chemically related
to the CS component of tear gas (which is why an over hot chilli dish takes
your breath away)

2427.7PSW::WINALSKICareful with that VAX, EugeneFri May 25 1990 21:4513
RE: .5

The leaflet that comes with Tabasco sauce bottles says that it's aged in oak
casks.  That probably accounts for the difference in taste between Tabasco and
Frank's.


RE: .6

The "active ingredient" in chili peppers is the chemical compound capsescein.
It is an extremely potent mucous membrane irritant.

--PSW