Tabasco in Cookies...Who Knew?
Louisiana has always been spicy...and part of that spicy heritage has been Tabasco!Tabasco has been produced by the McIlhenny Company since 1868. Several new types of sauces are now produced under the name Tabasco Sauce, including jalapeño-based green, chipotle-based smoked, habanero, and garlic sauces. The jalapeño variety does not include Tabasco peppers.
The peppers were traditionally grown on Avery Island, but the bulk of them are now grown in the more temperate climates of Central and South America, where the weather and more farm area allow a more predictable and larger year-round supply of the peppers.
Avery Island is not really an island – it is a huge dome of rock salt, three miles long and two and a half miles wide. At it's highest point it is only 152 feet above sea level. It is located seven miles south of New Iberia, surrounded by wet marsh and the Bayou Peiti Anse. It’s one of five along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, formed when an ancient seabed evaporated, depositing pure salt, which rose up in large chunks and pushed the ground into a hill.Long before its namesake Avery family settled there in the 1830s, American Indians discovered that Avery Island’s verdant flora covered a precious natural resource—a massive salt dome. There the Indians boiled the Island’s briny spring water to extract salt, which they traded to other tribes as far away as central Texas, Arkansas, and Ohio.
More History of Tabasco and listen to NPR's story on the spicy stuff! But who knew you could use it for cookies!
Peppersass Cookies
Makes about 5 dozen cookies
Ingredients
2-1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups sugar, divided
2/3 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature
1 egg
2 teaspoons TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat 1 cup sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer at low speed until well blended. Add egg, TABASCO® Sauce, vanilla and flour mixture; beat until smooth.
Divide dough in half; place halves on plastic wrap. Shape each half into log about 1-1/2 inches in diameter. Cover and refrigerate until firm, 2 to 3 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place remaining 1/2 cup sugar in shallow dish. Cut dough logs into 1/4-inch-thick slices; dip each slice in sugar. Place slices 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies are golden around edges. Cool on wire racks.
I made some decorated sugar cookies with ground hot pepper flakes. The taste was wonderful with just a slight warming aftertaste that left you saying "wow". I posted the recipe on Food got To Love It a while back.
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Posted by
sylvie1950 |
Thu Sep 15, 07:44:00 PM
I love Tabasco. I can't imagine it in a sweet treat...I'm trying...
Posted by
R.Powers |
Sat Sep 17, 05:56:00 AM
I like the sound of that! Actually, my Mother just gave me a recipe for Chipotle Apple Pecan Cake which sounds great. By the way I love Tabasco's new Chipotle sauce, it tastes like a sauce version of the canned chipotles. Most of those CHipotle sauces taste like regular hot sauce with just a little Chipotle flavor, not this one. I can't wait to try their Habanero.
Posted by
Danno |
Thu Sep 22, 01:25:00 PM