On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:34:46 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
>(TammyM) wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:16:11 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Just put this on my website, too. I used two canned chipotles for the
>> >second time around (I'd used a couple dried ones the first time around
>> >several months ago.) I prefer the canned.
>> >
>> >8/26/05 Cherry Chipotle Relish
>> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >August 26, 2005
>> >
>> >Cherry Chipotle Relish
>> >Recipe by Barb Schaller, 2004 Minnesota State Fair Prestigious Processor
>> >of the Pantry and Gedney State Fair Jam Lady
>> >©Barbara Schaller 2005
>>
>> <recipe snippage>
>>
>> For those of us not blessed enough to have access to the State Fair
>> Gedney's Goodies, could you propose a reasonable substitute for the
>> cherry preserves? Or should I just go for the gold and use up my
>> Peach Melba Jammies (for the brownies) and change the name of the
>> brownies? Or should I just sit in a corner and pout? (I do this very
>> well.)
>>
>> Next time I see you, and there WILL be a next time (promise, not a
>> threat), I'm gonna git you to sign one of those jars! It's just not
>> good enough to have that angel face looking at me from the label, I
>> need an autograph :0)
>>
>> TammyM, sucking up again
>
>Show me the money. I'm happy to pick some up and ship it as long as its
>understood that it's not cheap to mail a 1# jar.

Appreciate the offer, dollface. But what kinda cheapass company is
Gedneys to not have a web site where us po' folk Californicators can
buy it off the web rawther than bother our Meen-a-SOTE-an frinds?

>As far as a substitute, ye gods, Tammy, use up that Peach Rapberry jam!
>It's got to be an awful color by now.

ALRIGHT, ALREADY, stop yellin' at me about the !*#$*!&#$!&* PR
jam!!!!! I was saving it for posterior. Posterity. Whatever. Is it
my sparklingly creative imagination or are you getting cranky in your
old .... um ... in your advancing ... golden ... ermmmm ... in your
AARP years? <ducking and running FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!> <speedy little
whippersnapper that I am :->)

> BTW, I have certainly used the PR
>jam in the brownies, though I've always swirled a few dollops through
>the usual batter, rather than mixing it into the batter as I did with
>these. Your call.

I'll give it a shot and feed it to the lads next door. If they
survive, I'll make some for my work folk. "-)

>For the relish, try some goormet shop (TJ?) or the highbuck supermarket
>-- I'm thinking there's cherry preserves out there. I will say that the
>Gedney product is chock full of fruit bits -- not puree with a couple
>bits here and there.

Now this is going to sound dorky, so remember that I'm not of the
preserving persuasion (tm), but what kinda cherries might one use to
make cherry preserves? Could one use frozen cherries? Or Bings which
are the most common kinda cherry in these parts that I've seen. Even
though I'm not of the PP, I might just give it a shot next year....
One nevuh knows....

>-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Several notes since 8/18/05,
>including the Blue Ribbon Brownie Recipe

TammyM