Recipe - Chile Relish

4 pound Hot peppers (your choice)
you could use Jalapeno;
Serrano, or Cayenne
3 pound Mild or sweet peppers; red
or green bell peppers; cut
into strips. but if you
like hot; use Poblano
peppers
5 cup White vinegar (5% acidity)
1 cup Water
2 tablespoon Sugar
4 teaspoon Salt
2 (up to)
6 Cloves garlic

Wash peppers. Cut small slits in in each hot pepper. Blanch hot peppers in
boiling water for 3 minutes. Cool in ice water. Drain and then flatten the
peppers. Combine remaining ingredients, except sweet peppers, pot and bring
to boil. Boil for 10 minutes. Fill jars with flattened hot peppers and mild
peppers strips. Fill jar to within 1/2" of top of pint jar with vinegar
mixture. If you don't like garlic, only use 2 and remove them before
packing. Remove bubbles, seal, and process with boiling water bath from 10
minutes.

Comments: if you have different kinds of hot peppers, I would suggest that
you keep them segregated when you put them into the pint jars. Each has
its own lovely favor.

If you use poblano or New Mexixo peppers instead of sweet pepper, you might
blanch them as they have a tough outer skin. (Roasting and peeling the
poblanos may make them too soft for the relish.)

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