Pattypan's Pantry Projects Stringing my Chillies
I came across a few more chillies on offer and so decided to take advantage of the find and string a few more chiillies for drying and using in my home made preserves. Once strung I then hang them off the dressers to dry and then once dry decant into a clean airtight jar. They are quite easy to string. However please wear latex gloves or clean rubber gloves for processing as the hot part of the chillies transfers to the skin and it can "burn". I found this out the hard way and have made sure that I have been "gloved" up since whenever handling chillies! Chilli burn is not a pleasant experience. However, I then realised that I had left my large sewing bodkin in my basics sewing tin at the caravan. OH is going there today in any event and I am going to get on at the house whilst he is away. So I could not get to stringing my chillies first thing as planned, which is no great shakes as I have lots of stuff to do. So I did this later on. First of all put ...