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To Make Cayenne Pepper

This is prepared from the pods of the Chili or bird-pepper. The ripe pods, dried in the sun, are placed in layers with wheaten flour in a dish or tray, and exposed in a stove room or half cold oven until perfectly dry; they are then removed from the flour and ground to fine powder; to every ounce of this powder, 15 ounces wheaten flour are added, and made into a dough with a little tepid water and a tea-spoonful of yeast; after fermentation is well set up, the dough is cut into small pieces, and baked in a slow oven until perfectly hard and brittle. It is then beaten or ground to powder, and forms cayenne pepper. then pour off the vinegar, cover them with hot spiced vinegar, and keep them close.

Half a dozen peppers improve a jar of cucumbers, as the heat of the former is absorbed by the latter.