ID these peppers? (update: ID is Hot Paper Lantern)

[Muse]

Here's the simple "Hot Sauce" I've been making for many years. I made (guessing) at least 10 quarts this year, mostly canned in pint canning jars.

X pounds of my vine ripened tomatoes, washed and chopped

X/10 pounds store bought organic jalapeno peppers, fairly finely chopped

Some salt (not a lot)

1/2 teaspoon citric acid per quart

Simmer a while

Can in steamed jars


After opening, store in refrigerator. Unless I'm using a lot, I go for the pint jars. It stays OK for a couple weeks refrigerated after opening.

It's sweet and hot.

 

[dank69]

It's that time of year again. Was able to buy 40 of these peppers from the local farmstand. 25c each.

Made a fresh batch using the same recipe as last year, except all 12 peppers were hot paper lanterns. I didn't have to buy regular habeneros.

I also bought 4 really nice ripe limes from the grocery store and used 2 tsp. of juice from those instead of the lemon juice. It came out even better this year because no habeneros.

Then I made a second batch to experiment with a lime version. Zested and juiced all 4 limes. Got about 2/3 cup of juice even after the 2 tsp. I used on the regular batch. 1/3 cup distilled vinegar and 1 cup apple cider vinegar. 1 tbsp. salt and 2 tbsp. sugar, and 12 peppers. Simmered for 15 minutes same as regular batch with 2/3 of the zest. After it cooled I added the last 1/3 zest and blended smooth. Lime version on left and regular on right:

 

[dank69]

I want to try fermenting enough peppers to make a half batch just so I can see for myself how it affects the flavor. Will have to see how that goes.

 

[BoomerD]

Update time!

First, the bad news. I couldn't get any of the seeds to germinate. Now, pepper seeds are apparently notoriously difficult to germinate, so I don't know if that is the reason, or the seeds weren't mature enough, or if these were bred specifically so their seeds won't germinate to keep people buying seeds from licensed distributors. I suspect it might be the latter.

I hope that's not the case with the Hatch chilis we bought this year. I saved some of the seeds to try to germinate.

 

[dank69]

I hope that's not the case with the Hatch chilis we bought this year. I saved some of the seeds to try to germinate.

Yeah I tried again with the seeds I saved from last year but couldn't get a single one to germinate.