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+#title Mango and Molasses Habanero Hot Sauce
+
+* A Warning From the Future
+
+I made this recipe very, very long ago. I didn't calculate the correct
+amount of vinegar needed to make it shelf stable, so it probably
+isn't. Reader beware.
+
+I'll probably update this in Fall 2020 as I'll have a garden again for
+the first time in a few years, and should be making some hot sauce
+with the hot peppers left at the end of the season.
+
 * Ingredients
 
- - 15ish Fresh Habaneros
- - 1 Mango
- - 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
+** Common
+
+ - 1 Extra Large Mango (or 2 medium)
+ - 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
  - 3 tbsp molasses
- - 1 tbsp cumin
- - 1 tsp koshering or sea salt
- - 1 tbsp cayenne pepper
+ - 1 1/2 tbsp cumin
+ - 1 tsp sea salt
  - 1 tbsp paprika
 
+** Super Hot
+
+ - 15ish Fresh Habaneros
+   - Do not deseed
+ - 1 tbsp cayenne pepper
+
+** Edible and Tasty
+
+ - 7 or 8 fresh habaneros
+   - Deseed and remove the inner flesh
+ - Equivalent mass of fresh red bell pepper ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527144021/http://www.ochef.com/158.htm][roasted]])
+
 * Directions
 
  1. Put on gloves and perhaps a respirator and goggles to avoid *death
@@ -32,3 +56,13 @@ offer to adopt the plants. Thus the garden ended up with three
 habanero plants. It is a little known fact that habaneros produce
 ridiculous numbers of peppers, and so something had to be done with
 them after the family grew sick of spicy foods every night.
+
+** A Justification for the Mild Variant
+
+The initial super hot sauce proved to be tasty for a moment and then
+overwhelmingly hot. Now, don't get me wrong, I like incredibly spicy
+things, but the initial flavor of the sauce was rather nice and it
+seemed a shame to have it destroyed by the habanero. With the
+replacement of some habanero by a sweet pepper the flavors come into
+balance, and the sauce becomes a rather nice adjunct to things like
+chili or black bean burritos.