Pappadews are really coming in nicely now and I have cooked down about 5 gallons of them for making my red Pappadew hot sauce. Now I am going to attempt making a relish out of them so let the experiments begin. They are so mild this year due to the rain that it will take quite a bit of cayenne peppers added to get some heat or a few Malaguetas. I am so afraid of the Malaguetas because just a couple too many and it could end up being way too hot. In my hot sauce I use a lot of brown sugar for the flavor and even some molasses but I'm thinking that will turn the relish too brown because I used about half brown sugar on my last relish and it turned out really dark. Oh well I guess I better get busy cutting off the meat of the peppers because I don't want so many seeds. The seed to meat ratio in a Pappadew is probably at least 50/50 and that would make a terribly seedy relish. If this relish works we won't be giving much of it away.
Bill