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Former Seed Savers Exchange fellow member Lucina Cress has been canning miniature stuffed peppers for decades using capsicum from her own garden . Lucina ’s Miniature Stuffed Peppers were a hit year after twelvemonth at her local hospital bazaar . Keep reading for the recipe !
In the 1980s , Lucina list three varieties of miniature bell pepper semen on theExchange . An elderly neighbor had given Lucina‘Miniature Red Bell ’ pepperand‘Miniature Yellow Bell ’ pepperseeds . But her favorite , the‘Miniature Chocolate Bell ’ Piper nigrum , arose from a harvest of full - size chocolate bell white pepper in Lucina ’s own garden . To fine - air this variety , she relieve seeds from the smallest fruit of each cocoa bell pepper crop .
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These seeds are no longer listed by Lucina on the Exchange , but are available to buy from our shop .
Lucina Cress told SSE co - founder Diane Ott Whealy , “ An elderly lady grow these Madagascar pepper in Ohio and passed them on to me . The chocolate is still my favorite , always so mild and sweet and all the plants would raise early on and kept get along on till frost . ”
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Lucina’s Miniature Stuffed Peppers Recipe
Lucina has been make the stuffed peppers for decades . “ I think I first list the capsicum germ in the 1981 Seed Savers Exchange [ Yearbook ] . I always offer up to send the formula for stuffing and terminate with the white pepper source . Each class , our infirmary adjuvant branch stuffed miniature white pepper for the hospital bazaar . We canned over seven hundred jolt and some years , and we were sold out by 11 a.m. ”
Instructions from Lucina:
Makes 15 dry pint
Shred cabbage amercement ( SSE faculty recommend the‘Early Jersey Wakefield’cabbage ) . For each 3 quarts of cabbage , add 2 1/2 teaspoons salt and let stand for 20 minutes .
While the cabbage is soaking , rinse enough of Lucina ’s Miniature Bell peppers of all colors to make 15 pints . Cut a small scuttle on top and take out the seeds . Learn how to save capsicum seeds .
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squelch the liquid off the cabbage and discard .
add up to cabbage :
coalesce cabbage and stuff inside the pepper . space in jars . Boil together :
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Pour over white pepper in jars and seal . cognitive operation in a blistering water bathing tub for 15 minutes .
mention on canning : pepper are considered a low - window pane food and require a pressure - canner to bear on the peppers safely . However , the process of pickling increases acidulous spirit level and do the peppers safe to can with a hot water system bath . For more detail on canning , Ball Mason Jars has a groovy guide .
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Lucina’s Stuffed Peppers
3094 North Winn RoadDecorah , Iowa 52101(563 ) 382 - 5990
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