If the chilliesproduce a strong smell, the evil eye has been averted.
When foreign cayenne is pounded, it is mixed with a considerable portion of salt, to prevent its injuring the eyes: but English chillies may be pounded in a deep mortar without any danger, and afterwards passed through a fine sieve.
The flavour of the chillies is superior to that of the capsicums, and will be good in proportion as they are dried as soon as possible, taken care that they be not burnt.
A hundred large chillies will produce about two ounces of cayenne.
Capsicums and chillies are ripe and in good condition, during the months of September and October.
Cut the meat in half-inch squares and put into a clean stew-pan with the onions sliced, the chillies in quarters; then add all the Curry Powder, etc.
And at the same time they throw the mustard, chillies and salt on the fire so that the eyes of her who cast the evil eye may crack and fall out as these things crackle in the fire.
The bulk of the Dangris, however, grow melons, chillies and brinjals on the banks or in the beds of rivers; but as the melon crop is raised in a period of six weeks during the hot season, they can also undertake some ordinary cultivation.
Demoniacal possession is an article of faith, and a popular remedy is to burn human hair mixed with chillies and pig's dung near the person possessed, as the horrible smell thus produced will drive away the spirit.
A bacchio e Capretto alla Cacciatora is very young lamb and sucking-goat cut into small pieces, and cooked in a sauce to which anchovies and chillies give the dominant taste.
If you wish to commence with hors-d'oeuvre, try the Pepperoni, which are large yellow or red chillies preserved in pressed grapes and served with oil and vinegar, salt and pepper.
In Ahmadnagar, when a person is bitten by a snake, he is taken to Bhairoba's temple, crushed Nim leaves mixed with chillies are given him to eat, and Nim leaves waved round his head.
Among the Bhils suspected persons used to be suspended from a tree head downwards, pounded chillies being first put into the witch's eyes to see if the smarting would bring tears from her.
The wholesale price of chillies in the London market is from 15s.
Chillies or capsicum are long roundish taper pods, divided into two or three cells, full of small whitish seeds.
Take a hundred red chillies or capsicums, fresh gathered; cut them into small pieces and infuse them for a fortnight in a quart of the best vinegar, shaking the bottle every day.
Cook chillies as in tamale recipe, add to the sieved chillies one pint of thick strained tomato pulp, one minced large onion, one fourth teaspoon salt and cover and simmer fifteen minutes.
One pint of stewed chicken cut up in chicken broth and seasoned with three cooked chillies (sieved) half a cup of washed rice, half a pint of finely minced cooked tongue, one teaspoon of salt.
Minced beef may be used instead of chicken and often one cup of chopped tomatoes are added to the chillies before cooking.
Soon after our arrival we were given a most copious meal: bowl after bowl of well cooked macaroni and mince with pickled radishes and chillies were set before us.
On this occasion a bountiful supply of chillies solved our difficulty.
He gave us small dishes of excellent macaroni and mince, seasoned up with chillies and very well cooked--much better than anything our cooks could produce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chillies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
