Re: [gardeners] Lemon Drop chiles
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:32:08 -0600
At 11:47 AM 10/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> I've been making some ristra's with some
>>little red chiles (don't know the name).
>
>Please sir, what's a ristra
>
>Donna, Tennessee
>
I'm not sir, but I'm less busy than George at the moment. A ristra is a
string of dried chile peppers. Some I suspect are threaded with a needle,
but the traditional Mexican way of making ristras is by tying three stems
together, then in a short distance tying three more together so that they
overlap and comprise a long "bunch" of chiles. Margaret