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Datil pepper sauce

Datil peppers are on the same Scoville scale as habaneros, except they have a sweet, fruity flavor.  Their number on the Scoville scale can be anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000.  They’re cultivated throughout the United States and other parts of the world, but a majority of them are produced in St. Augustine, Florida, where S.B. Valls, a jelly maker, brought them from Cuba in the 1880s.  The Minorcan community uses datil peppers in many recipes.  Datil pepper products are very common in St. Augustine, but you can find sauces with this kind of pepper in them elsewhere in this country.
You can even buy datil pepper sauces on the Internet through the website Minorcan Datil Pepper Products, which says it’s “The Cuisine of Old St. Augustine.  Even though it’s hard to find this kind of sauce in stores in your local area, you can buy it on this website for similar prices as what you would spend on similar sauces at the supermarket.  If you love the sauce you choose, you can buy a case of 12 for $48, which translates into about $4 a bottle.  At 8 ounces, you’re not going to get a considerable amount of sauce for the money you spend, but you have to remember how spicy these peppers are.  This isn’t Tabasco sauce.  You can slather any dish with it.  Moderation is key, especially when you’re using a sauce with peppers that are as hot as datil peppers.
Spicy food eaters who don’t like the more popular habaneros are going to love the less popular, but equally as delicious datil pepper sauce.