Luke in Oz did write , Just got back from the big smoke {Sydney}+{Kiama visited brother and mum , appologies to all CH's I should have called in on .Mum used to keep a bottle of Chillies in sherry ............... Picked up a bottle of Chillies in Vodka that mum had left over from 94 bottling , Ate some - Hint if planning to keep for a while remove the stem these "tasted fairly much in the Tannin spectrum"{ try chewing a bit of deciduous bark } , Yuck had some about 2 years agao they were quite nice then . a landlord of mine used to use Chillies in Whiskey for his rheumatism about 15 yrs ago but then he used to take a bottle of whiskey internally daily {he often said he felt no Pain} my Vodka Chilles may end up being donated to medical science ,as i'm sure his liver certainly was . TEJAS COLD CURE "Drink a tumbler full of whiskey with the juice of 100 Pequin's."