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The chile chipotle is the soul of this jar: chīlpōctli in Nahuatl, smoked chile, the mature red jalapeño of Veracruz and Puebla after seventy-two slow hours over pecan, oak or mesq uite smoke. A green-grass jalapeño becomes leather-dark, oil-rich, deeply phenolic, carrying a smoke aromatic no other chile delivers. Cane sugar is the slow-cooking medium, softening the dried flesh into a spoonable conserve and converting to dark caramel as it goes; onion lends allium body; bay laurel threads a green-aromatic Mediterranean signal that grounds the Mexican smoke. Dense, dark-mahogany, three-layered: smoke first, then sweet, then heat. Show more