Merciful Habanero Sauce

Ingredients:

• Enough (50/50) white and cider vinegar to fill a table cruet
• (use room-temperature vinegars).
• Two (yes, TWO!) stemmed, coarsely chopped (but not seeded)
• fresh Habanero chiles.

Preparation:

• 1/4 tsp coarse sea salt.
• Simply pour the vinegars over the chopped chiles (which
• should
• fill the cruet about half-way) & salt, and allow to steep at
• room temperature for several days, shaking things up every
• day or so.
• Comments:
• Made in small batches, spoilage problem at room temperature
• just
• don`t seem to happen.
• Excellent on things like black-eyed peas, greens, and - for
• the purist - just plaine sprinkled on a crisp soda cracker.
• Although there eventually is little doubt left that you are
• dealing
• with habaneros, all right,
• The sauce is strikingly gentle for anything so composed, and
• the
• first (and lingering) impression it leaves in your mouth is
• the
• essence of the sweetness and fruitiness of the chile, not