Sauce Piquante – Hot Sauce

Bleuet + Scotch Bonnet
Blueberry + Scotch Bonnet

Notre sauce piquante Bleuet + Scotch Bonnet a été développé pendant la saison des bleuets au Québec en 2019 parce que nous ne savions tout simplement pas quoi faire avec autant de délicieux bleuets locaux! Avec quelques scotch bonnets et un peu de recherche, nous avons décidé de développer cette sauce piquante inspirée des Caraïbes.

 

Bien que les bleuets ne soient pas des Caraïbes, cette sauce piquante est une recette traditionnelle des Caraïbes à base de piments scorpions de Trinidad Moruga (l’un des piments les plus chauds au monde) et de fruits locaux. Nous l’avons adapté pour utiliser les bleuets du Québec et un peu plus palpable en remplaçant les piments scorpions de Trinidad Moruga par des scotch bonnets. Cette sauce piquante est assez piquant, avec une belle rondeur sucrée et fruitée.

Our Blueberry + Scotch Bonnet was developed during Quebec’s blueberry season in 2019 because we just did not know what to do with so many delicious local blueberries! With some scotch bonnets on hand and a little research, we decided to develop this Caribbean inspired hot sauce.

 

Though blueberries are not Caribbean, this hot sauce is a traditional caribbean recipe made from Trinidad Moruga Scorpions (one of the hottest peppers in the world) and local fruits. We’ve adapted it to use all those Quebec blueberries and slightly more palpable by swapping the Trinidad Moruga Scorpions for Scotch Bonnet. This hot sauce has quite a bite, with a lovely sweet and fruity roundness.

Notre sauce piquante Bleuet + Scotch Bonnet a été inspirée par la célèbre tueuse en série Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss est née en 1905 en Alabama. Elle est née dans une famille de cinq enfants, dirigé par un père contrôlant. «Il gouvernait sa famille avec une main de fer». James, leur père, retirait ses enfants de l’école pour qu’ils s’occupent de la ferme. Cela a entraîné une mauvaise performance scolaire de Nannie. Elle décrocha de l’école après avoir terminé sa sixième année. Nannie a souffert de maux de tête graves, de perte de connaissance et de dépression après un accident de train à l’âge de 7 ans, où elle s’est cognée la tête sur une barre de métal alors qu’un train s’arrêtait soudainement. Elle reproche cet accident d’être la cause de son instabilité mentale.

Our Blueberry + Scotch Bonnet hot sauce was inspired by notorious serial killer Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss was born in 1905 in Alabama. She was one of five children, all of whom avoided their father, whose wrath “ruled the family with an iron fist”. James, their father, would pull his children out of school for them to tend to the farm. This resulted in Nannie’s poor academic performance, and dropping out of school after completing grade six. Nannie suffered severe headaches, blackouts, and depression after a train accident at the age of 7, where she hit her head on a metal bar as the train came to a sudden stop. She blamed her future mental instability on the accident as well.

James était convaincu que ses filles seraient hacelées si elles étaient attirantes, alors il les interdit de porter du maquillage et de beaux vêtements.En plus, L’interdiction d’assister à des événements sociaux et des danses. Le soir de son bal de finissant, Nannie travaillait dans une fabrique de linge. Pour échapper à l’environnement contrôlant de son père, Nannie avait comme passe-temps préféré de lire les magazines romantiques de sa mère, en particulier la colonne des cœurs solitaires, et de rêver de ses propres futures romances. Ce n’est qu’en 1921, alors que Doss eu son premier emploi, qu’elle a des interactions sociales avec le sexe opposé.

À l’âge de 16 ans, Nannie a épousé un collègue, Charley Braggs, de la fabrique de linge, quelques mois seulement après qu’ils aient commencé à sortir ensemble. Braggs prit soin de sa mère célibataire, qui insista pour continuer à vivre avec lui après leur mariage.

Si elle aurait espéré que le mariage avec Braggs serait une évasion à l’environnement oppressif dans lequel elle a grandi, elle s’est malheureusement trompée. Non seulement Braggs s’est avéré être un mari violent, ivre et adultère, mais sa belle-mère s’est avérée être extrêmement contrôlante et manipulatrice. Néanmoins, ils ont eu 4 enfants ensemble qu’elle a élevés presque seule.

James was convinced that his daughters would be molested if they were attractive, so he forbade his daughters from wearing makeup and nice clothing or attending any social events and dances. On her prom night, Nannie was working in a linen factory. To escape her father’s controlling environment, Nannie’s favourite hobby was to read her mother’s romance magazines, especially the “lonely hearts” column, and dream of her own future romances. It was not until Doss got her first job in 1921 that she had any social interaction with the opposite sex.
At the age of 16, Nannie married a co-worker from the linen factory, Charley Braggs, only months after they started dating. Braggs took care of his unwed mother, who insisted on continuing to live with him after their marriage.
If she had hoped that marrying Braggs would be an escape of the oppressive environment she grew up in, she was sorely misled. Not only did Braggs turn out to be an abusive, drunk and adulterous husband, but her mother-in-law turned out to be extremely controlling and manipulative. Nonetheless, they had four children together which she raised nearly on her own.

La vie de Doss devint une prison insupportable ; élever ses enfants, prendre soin de sa belle-mère et supporter son mari. Pour s’en sortir, elle a commencé à boire, à fumer et à vivre ses propres aventures adultères.

En 1927, le couple a perdu ses deux filles cadettes à cause d’une intoxication alimentaire présumée. Braggs, cependant, se souvint que les filles étaient en parfaite santé quand il partit pour le travail, et les retrouva mortes sur le sol de la cuisine à son retour ce soir-là. Soupçonnant sa femme, Braggs prit sa fille aînée Melvina et s’enfuit, laissant derrière lui Florine, le nouveau-née. La mère de Braggs mourut peu de temps après et Nannie prit un emploi dans une filature de coton pour subvenir aux besoins de Florine et d’elle-même. Braggs ramena Melvina en 1928, et peu après il divorce de Nannie. Charley Braggs est devenu le seul mari que Nannie n’a pas empoisonné à mort – “celui qui s’est échappé”.

Seule de nouveau, Doss retourna à ses passions d’enfance; lire des magazines romantiques, mais cette fois-ci elle commença à correspondre avec certains hommes qui écrivaient dans la colonne des cœurs solitaires. C’est là qu’elle a rencontré son deuxième mari, Robert Harrelson. Ils se sont rencontrés et se sont mariés en 1929. Après quelques mois, elle a découvert qu’il était alcoolique et qu’il avait un casier judiciaire pour voies de fait. Malgré cela, le mariage a duré 16 ans.

Doss’ life became an unbearable prison of raising children, taking care of her mother-in-law, and putting up with her husband. To cope, she began drinking, smoking, and having her own adulterous adventures.
In 1927, the couple lost their two middle girls to suspected food poisoning. Braggs, however, remembered the girls being perfectly healthy when he left for work, and found them dead on the kitchen floor when returning that evening. Suspecting his wife, Braggs took firstborn daughter Melvina and fled, leaving newborn Florine behind. Braggs’ mother died not much later and Nannie took a job in a cotton mill to support Florine and herself. Braggs brought Melvina back in 1928, and soon after divorced Nannie. Charley Braggs became the only husband that Nannie didn’t poison to death – “the one that got away”.
Alone again, Doss returned to her childhood passions of reading romance magazines, but this time she began corresponding with some of the men who advertised in the lonely hearts column. That’s where she met her second husband, Robert Harrelson. They met and married in 1929. After a few months, she discovered that he was an alcoholic and had a criminal record for assault. Despite this, the marriage lasted 16 years.

Après une soirée d’alcool particulièrement intense pour célébrer la reddition du Japon aux puissances alliées en 1945, il a violé Nannie. Le lendemain, elle a versé de la mort-aux-rats dans son pot de whisky de maïs, puis l’a regardé mourir d’une mort douloureuse.

Estimant que cela avait fonctionné une fois, Doss est retourné aux petites annonces pour son prochain mari. Elle épousa Arlie Lanning, trois jours plus tard. Comme Harrelson, Lanning était un coureur de jupons alcoolique. Cependant, dans ce mariage, c’était Nannie qui disparaissait souvent et pendant des mois, mais quand elle était à la maison, elle jouait la femme au foyer aimante. Arlie est mort de ce qu’on disait d’être une insuffisance cardiaque, les citadins ont soutenue Nannie aux funérailles. A l’époque, on croyait qu’il était mort d’une crise cardiaque provoquée par la grippe. Il a montré tous les symptômes : fièvre, vomissements, douleurs d’estomac. Avec ses antécédents d’alcool, les médecins ont cru que son corps avait simplement succombé à cela et aucune autopsie n’a été fait.

Peu après, la maison du couple a brûlé et Nannie a recueilli l’argent de l’assurance, et a emménagé avec sa sœur Dovie. Dovie était alitée et mourut peu après l’arrivée de Nannie.

À la recherche d’un autre mari, Nannie rejoint un service de rencontres appelé le Diamond Circle Club et rencontra et maria Richard L. Morton en 1952. Il n’avait pas de problème d’alcool, mais il était adultère. En apprenant que son nouveau mari voyait son ancienne petite amie, elle a planifia sa mort. Avant d’empoisonner Morton, elle empoisonna sa mère, Louisa, quand elle est venue visitée. En quelques jours, sa mère est morte après s’être plainte de graves crampes d’estomac. Morton succombe au même sort trois mois plus tard.

Nannie a épousé Samuel Doss en 1953.Il était un ministre strict qui avait perdu sa famille à cause d’une tornade en Arkansas. Doss était un homme bon et décent, contrairement aux autres hommes. Il n’était pas un ivrogne, ni un coureur de jupons ou un agresseur de femme. C’était un homme qui allait à l’église et qui est tombé la tête sur les talons pour Nannie.

Malheureusement pour lui, Doss avait deux défauts majeurs : Il était avare et ennuyeux. Il menait une vie assiégée et s’attendait à la même chose de sa nouvelle épouse. Aucun roman d’amour ou d’histoires d’amour que Nannie adorait, ou de télévisions autorisés, et l’heure du coucher était au coucher du soleil chaque nuit. Il avait commencé à l’ennuyer peu après leur mariage. Nannie l’a quitté et n’est revenue que lorsqu’il a accepté de l’inscrire sur son compte chèque. Elle est ensuite devenue une épouse aimante et l’a convaincu de prendre deux polices d’assurance-vie, avec elle comme seul bénéficiaire.

En septembre, Samuel a été admis à l’hôpital avec des symptômes semblables à ceux de la grippe. L’hôpital a diagnostiqué une infection grave du tube digestif. Il a été traité et relâché chez lui. Nannie l’a tué ce soir-là avec un repas fait maison, puis s’est précipitée pour récupérer les deux polices d’assurance-vie qu’elle avait pris sur lui. Cette mort soudaine a alerté son médecin, qui a ordonné une autopsie. L’autopsie a révélé une énorme quantité d’arsenic dans son système. Nannie a été rapidement arrêtée.

Mme Doss avoua avoir tué quatre de ses maris, sa mère, sa sœur, son petit-fils* et sa belle-mère, et fut condamnée à la prison à perpétuité. Nanny a insisté sur le fait que l’argent ne jouait aucun rôle important dans ses crimes. Malgré divers paiements d’assurance, ses meurtres étaient en fait motivés par l’ennui conjugal, un rêve de découvrir le mari idéal, comme décrit dans ses magazines romantiques préférés. “C’est à peu près tout,” dit Nanny à ses interrogateurs. “Je cherchais le compagnon parfait, la vraie romance de la vie.”

*Melvina a donné naissance à Robert Lee Haynes en 1943. Un autre bébé a suivi deux ans plus tard, mais est mort peu après. Épuisée par l’accouchement et sous l’effet de l’éther, Melvina a cru voir sa mère en visite planter une épingle à chapeau dans la tête du bébé. Quand elle a demandé des éclaircissements à son mari et à sa sœur, ils ont dit que Nannie leur avait dit que le bébé était mort. Cependant, ils ont remarqué qu’elle tenait une épinglette. Les médecins, cependant, ne pouvaient pas donner une explication positive.

Les parents en deuil se séparèrent et Melvina commença à sortir avec un soldat. Nannie le désapprouva, et tandis que Melvina rendait visite à son père après une dispute particulièrement désagréable avec sa mère, son fils Robert mourut mystérieusement sous la garde de Nannie. Le décès a été diagnostiqué comme une asphyxie de causes inconnues, et deux mois plus tard, Nannie a recueilli l’assurance vie de 500 $ qu’elle avait souscrite sur Robert.

After an evening of particularly heavy drinking to celebrate Japan surrendering to the Allied powers in 1945, he raped Nannie. The next day, she poured rat poison into his corn whiskey jar, then watched as he died a painful death.

Figuring it had worked once, Doss returned to the classified ads for her next husband. Three days later, she married Arlie Lanning. Like Harrelson, Lanning was an alcoholic and a womanizer. However, in this marriage it was Nannie who often disappeared—and for months on end. But when she was home, she played the doting housewife, and when he died of what was said to be heart failure, the townspeople supported her at his funeral. At the time it was believed that he died of a heart attack brought on by the flu. He showed all the symptoms: fever, vomiting, stomach pains. With his history of drinking, doctors believed his body simply succumbed to it and an autopsy wasn’t performed.
Shortly after, the couple’s house burned down and Nannie collected the insurance money, and moved in with her sister Dovie. Dovie was bed ridden, and died shortly after Nannie’s arrival.
Looking for yet another husband, Nannie joined a dating service called the Diamond Circle Club and soon met and married Richard L. Morton in 1952. He didn’t have a drinking problem, but he was adulterous. Upon learning her new husband was seeing his old girlfriend on the side, she planned his death. Before she poisoned Morton, she poisoned her mother, Louisa, when she came to visit. Within days her mother was dead after complaining of severe stomach cramps. Morton succumbed to the same fate three months later.

Nannie married Samuel Doss in 1953. Doss was a strict minister who had lost his family to a tornado in Arkansas. Doss was a good, decent man, unlike the other men in Nannie’s life. He was not a drunk, a womanizer, or a wife abuser. He was a church-going man who fell head over heels for Nannie.

Unfortunately for him, Doss had two major flaws: He was painfully frugal and boring. He led a regimented life and expected the same of his new bride. None of the romance novels, love stories, or television programs that Nannie adored were permitted, and bedtime was at sundown every night. He had begun to annoy her shortly after their marriage. Nannie left him and returned only when he agreed to sign her into his checking account. She then became a loving wife and convinced him to take out two life insurance policies, with her as the only beneficiary.

In September, Samuel was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. The hospital diagnosed a severe digestive tract infection. He was treated and released back home. Nannie killed him that evening with a home-cooked meal, then rushed to collect the two life insurance policies she had taken out on him. This sudden death alerted his doctor, who ordered an autopsy. The autopsy revealed a huge amount of arsenic in his system. Nannie was promptly arrested.

Doss confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister, her grandson*, and her mother-in-law, and was sentenced to life in prison. Nanny insisted that money played no significant role in her crimes. Despite various insurance payments, her murders were actually motivated by marital boredom and a dream of discovering the ideal husband, as described in her favorite romance magazines. “That’s about it,” Nanny told her interrogators. “I was searching for the perfect mate, the real romance of life.”

 

*Melvina gave birth to Robert Lee Haynes in 1943. Another baby followed two years later, but died soon afterward. Exhausted from labor and groggy from ether (an anesthetic used in childbirth), Melvina thought she saw her visiting mother stick a hatpin into the baby’s head. When she asked her husband and sister for clarification, they said Nannie had told them the baby was dead. However, they noticed that she was holding a pin. The doctors, however, couldn’t give a firm explanation.

The grieving parents drifted apart and Melvina started dating a soldier. Nannie disapproved of him, and while Melvina was visiting her father after a particularly nasty fight with her mother, her son Robert died mysteriously under Nannie’s care. The death was diagnosed as asphyxia from unknown causes, and two months later Nannie collected the $500 life insurance she had taken out on Robert.

Our Blueberry + Scotch Bonnet was developed during Quebec’s blueberry season in 2019 because we just did not know what to do with so many delicious local blueberries! With some scotch bonnets on hand and a little research, we decided to develop this Caribbean inspired hot sauce.

 

Though blueberries are not Caribbean, this hot sauce is a traditional caribbean recipe made from Trinidad Moruga Scorpions (one of the hottest peppers in the world) and local fruits. We’ve adapted it to use all those Quebec blueberries and slightly more palpable by swapping the Trinidad Moruga Scorpions for Scotch Bonnet. This hot sauce has quite a bite, with a lovely sweet and fruity roundness.

Our Blueberry + Scotch Bonnet hot sauce was inspired by notorious serial killer Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss was born in 1905 in Alabama. She was one of five children, all of whom avoided their father, whose wrath “ruled the family with an iron fist”.

James, their father, would pull his children out of school for them to tend to the farm. This resulted in Nannie’s poor academic performance, and dropping out of school after completing grade six. Nannie suffered severe headaches, blackouts, and depression after a train accident at the age of 7, where she hit her head on a metal bar as the train came to a sudden stop. She blamed her future mental instability on the accident as well.

James was convinced that his daughters would be molested if they were attractive, so he forbade his daughters from wearing makeup and nice clothing or attending any social events and dances. On her prom night, Nannie was working in a linen factory. To escape her father’s controlling environment, Nannie’s favourite hobby was to read her mother’s romance magazines, especially the “lonely hearts” column, and dream of her own future romances. It was not until Doss got her first job in 1921 that she had any social interaction with the opposite sex.
At the age of 16, Nannie married a co-worker from the linen factory, Charley Braggs, only months after they started dating. Braggs took care of his unwed mother, who insisted on continuing to live with him after their marriage.
If she had hoped that marrying Braggs would be an escape of the oppressive environment she grew up in, she was sorely misled. Not only did Braggs turn out to be an abusive, drunk and adulterous husband, but her mother-in-law turned out to be extremely controlling and manipulative. Nonetheless, they had four children together which she raised nearly on her own.

Doss’ life became an unbearable prison of raising children, taking care of her mother-in-law, and putting up with her husband. To cope, she began drinking, smoking, and having her own adulterous adventures.
In 1927, the couple lost their two middle girls to suspected food poisoning. Braggs, however, remembered the girls being perfectly healthy when he left for work, and found them dead on the kitchen floor when returning that evening. Suspecting his wife, Braggs took firstborn daughter Melvina and fled, leaving newborn Florine behind. Braggs’ mother died not much later and Nannie took a job in a cotton mill to support Florine and herself. Braggs brought Melvina back in 1928, and soon after divorced Nannie. Charley Braggs became the only husband that Nannie didn’t poison to death – “the one that got away”.
Alone again, Doss returned to her childhood passions of reading romance magazines, but this time she began corresponding with some of the men who advertised in the lonely hearts column. That’s where she met her second husband, Robert Harrelson. They met and married in 1929. After a few months, she discovered that he was an alcoholic and had a criminal record for assault. Despite this, the marriage lasted 16 years.

After an evening of particularly heavy drinking to celebrate Japan surrendering to the Allied powers in 1945, he raped Nannie. The next day, she poured rat poison into his corn whiskey jar, then watched as he died a painful death.

Figuring it had worked once, Doss returned to the classified ads for her next husband. Three days later, she married Arlie Lanning. Like Harrelson, Lanning was an alcoholic and a womanizer. However, in this marriage it was Nannie who often disappeared—and for months on end. But when she was home, she played the doting housewife, and when he died of what was said to be heart failure, the townspeople supported her at his funeral. At the time it was believed that he died of a heart attack brought on by the flu. He showed all the symptoms: fever, vomiting, stomach pains. With his history of drinking, doctors believed his body simply succumbed to it and an autopsy wasn’t performed.
Shortly after, the couple’s house burned down and Nannie collected the insurance money, and moved in with her sister Dovie. Dovie was bed ridden, and died shortly after Nannie’s arrival.
Looking for yet another husband, Nannie joined a dating service called the Diamond Circle Club and soon met and married Richard L. Morton in 1952. He didn’t have a drinking problem, but he was adulterous. Upon learning her new husband was seeing his old girlfriend on the side, she planned his death. Before she poisoned Morton, she poisoned her mother, Louisa, when she came to visit. Within days her mother was dead after complaining of severe stomach cramps. Morton succumbed to the same fate three months later.

Nannie married Samuel Doss in 1953. Doss was a strict minister who had lost his family to a tornado in Arkansas. Doss was a good, decent man, unlike the other men in Nannie’s life. He was not a drunk, a womanizer, or a wife abuser. He was a church-going man who fell head over heels for Nannie.

Unfortunately for him, Doss had two major flaws: He was painfully frugal and boring. He led a regimented life and expected the same of his new bride. None of the romance novels, love stories, or television programs that Nannie adored were permitted, and bedtime was at sundown every night. He had begun to annoy her shortly after their marriage. Nannie left him and returned only when he agreed to sign her into his checking account. She then became a loving wife and convinced him to take out two life insurance policies, with her as the only beneficiary.

In September, Samuel was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. The hospital diagnosed a severe digestive tract infection. He was treated and released back home. Nannie killed him that evening with a home-cooked meal, then rushed to collect the two life insurance policies she had taken out on him. This sudden death alerted his doctor, who ordered an autopsy. The autopsy revealed a huge amount of arsenic in his system. Nannie was promptly arrested.

Doss confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister, her grandson*, and her mother-in-law, and was sentenced to life in prison. Nanny insisted that money played no significant role in her crimes. Despite various insurance payments, her murders were actually motivated by marital boredom and a dream of discovering the ideal husband, as described in her favorite romance magazines. “That’s about it,” Nanny told her interrogators. “I was searching for the perfect mate, the real romance of life.”

*Melvina gave birth to Robert Lee Haynes in 1943. Another baby followed two years later, but died soon afterward. Exhausted from labor and groggy from ether (an anesthetic used in childbirth), Melvina thought she saw her visiting mother stick a hatpin into the baby’s head. When she asked her husband and sister for clarification, they said Nannie had told them the baby was dead. However, they noticed that she was holding a pin. The doctors, however, couldn’t give a firm explanation.

The grieving parents drifted apart and Melvina started dating a soldier. Nannie disapproved of him, and while Melvina was visiting her father after a particularly nasty fight with her mother, her son Robert died mysteriously under Nannie’s care. The death was diagnosed as asphyxia from unknown causes, and two months later Nannie collected the $500 life insurance she had taken out on Robert.

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