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By Chad Ogle-Riccelli, donor of the ‘Ausilio Thin Skin Italian’ pepper; submitted by Michele Ogle-Riccelli
“ Our menage has many warmhearted memories of spending time with Grandpa Nicholas Domenico ‘ Nick ’ Riccelli in the kitchen making Italian sausage , ” says Michele . “ Grandma Theresa ( Ausilio ) Riccelli ( 97 years old ) call up all the time her sept would drop together overindulge sausage into case and later adding it to their pasta sauce . She will state you that her children and grandchildren loved shaping the Italian sausage balloon into patties and having them as a sandwich topped , of course , with fried ‘ Ausilio tenuous peel Italian ’ peppers and provolone cheese . Our class also enjoys this sausage on top of pizza or just fried up with some ‘ Ausilio Thin Skin Italian ’ peppers and onion . ”
Serves 10
Ingredients
Preparation
Combine the pork barrel and seasonings into a with child bowlful and immix well .
hatch the bowl with credit card wrap and refrigerate it for several hours or overnight .
Cook mixture in a frying pan over medium heat until it is no longer pinkish .
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assume charge card boxing glove ( peppers are spicy ) , wipe off the peppercorn with a damp cloth .
Use a knife to cut out and/or Delaware - seed the white pepper and then cut them into sparse slices to help the capsicum pepper plant dry out out in the oven more quickly .
Put foil over a baking sheet and place the sliced capsicum and all the germ on top . ( The seeds produce the heat and extra spice . )
site the baking sheet on the lowest rack of an oven preheated modest to medium ( about 200 degree ) .
Every two hours , flip over the white pepper for even dry . Bake pepper for several hours until crisp ; this could take nearly six minute .
withdraw the peppers from the oven when they have reached the right degree of dryness ; the pepper should snap in one-half and will easily crumble between your fingers .
Once the pepper are brittle , aim them into a bowl and crush them up ; a howitzer and pestle set puzzle out well . ( snowflake can be crush more to make a powder , if opt . ) storehouse pepper flakes in a jar with a lid alongside your other spices .
take note : Making these fleck in the oven is preferred ; however , you’re able to apply a dehydrator as well .
This Italian family heirloom pepper was donated to Seed Savers Exchange in 2015 by Chad and Michele Ogle - Riccelli of Des Moines , Iowa . Chad ’s cracking - grandparent , Giovanni “ John ” Ausilio and Rachel P. Scarcello , immigrated from Italy in the early 1900s . Their daughter Theresa continues to acquire the pepper , which today is at the centre of the fellowship ’s culinary traditions .
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When asked why the family chose to preserve this pepper and save seed anatomy yr to class , Chad says , “ As Grandma ( Theresa Ausilio Riccelli ) would tell you , they are her syndicate seeds . Something that special , you love and pass on for generation to come . . .These peppers are part of our inheritance . ”
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