Sunday, October 17, 2010

Pa Sportman's Club Sweet-Hot Wax Peppers


When I was a very young child, living in a small coal-mining town in Western Pa, my mother helped the family scrape-by serving at the local sportsman's club. I can barely remember the place, only the lake out front which hosted local fishing contests and giant bullfrogs. But she remembers a pepper relish that was served at every table with white bread and butter, and has been asking me to make it for months now. Well, peppers are in season and the subject of this month's Click for tigress can jam food blog challenge, so I gave it a shot, and gosh-darn is it good!

5 pint jars, lids and rings, sterilized
1 1/2# hungarian wax peppers
1/2# baby sweet peppers (added for color)
1/2 sweet onion, julienne
5 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
3 cups apple cider vinegar
2 cups water
1 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tsp canning salt


Slice peppers into rings, removing seed pods. Mix with garlic and onion. Bring vinegar, water, sugar and salt to a boil. Tightly pack pepper mix into sterilized jars, fill with brine, and attach lids and rings. Process for ten minutes. Here, I'm having mine on wheat bread with cream cheese.

7 comments:

  1. I've had something like this before and it's delicious. I'm from Ohio originally, so it must be kind of a regional thing. How gorgeous it looks, too! Can't wait for our season to kick in!

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  2. Looks delish - were your hungarian peppers hot or sweet?

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  3. The wax peppers are very hot, and the 1/2 # sweet peppers were more for color.

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  4. Yum! I wish I had more peppers. . . Maybe the Market will have some this week. My dad would love this for Christmas. Or Thanksgiving. Or lunch.

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  5. This looks amazing! Love your blog too!

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  6. These look great! Pickled peppers= yumminess!

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  7. Can you make this where I can print it off

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