They are also called bird peppers, but I've not
seen any local birds eat them, we always have plenty.
From billj AT harborside.com Mon Apr 16 15:08:57 2007Return-Path: <billj AT harborside.com>
I remember when I was a kid someone told me if you put wood ash on any pepper it would make the pepper hotter. As I recall I tried this and the bell peppers were definitely warmer in flavor. Does anyone have any knowledge of this?? Interesting
Although we don't have much winter we do have enough ash with which to do something. I'm wondering what everyone else does with their ash?I'm preparing at this moment to spread some after lunch around fruit trees, before it rains.
I also know ash is used in making soap although I haven't attempted that yet. Suggestions?I made some homemade lye once, and it burned my tongue (though not very injuriously). Ordinary wood ash water from the leachate is a potassium carbonate solution. It can be dried and used to leaven baked goods. To make it into lye, add a pinch of hydrated lime to the wood ash water, but not too much, because the unused calcium really ruins soap. For soap making, the lye has to boiled down until an egg will float, as they say, but it's safer to do the concentrating before you add the hydrated lime, because the final product is so caustic. Also, don't use an aluminum pan.
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