Red Chile Sauce 2

Ingredients

• 12 large red dried chile peppers
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 tablespoons lard or vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 quarts water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 pinch Mexican oregano

Instructions

1. Remove seeds and white threads or veins from peppers and wash in cold water; cook in boiling water for about 10 minutes, or until tender.
2. Remove the peppers and keep the water in which they were boiled. Grind the peppers to a paste; adding a little of the water in which they were boiled to make this easier; add in all 1 quart of the water in which the peppers were boiled.
3. Heat the fat or oil in a skillet. Fry the garlic in this. Remove and brown the flour in this fat; gradually add the chile mixture and salt, stirring well. Simmer for 10 minutes.

This will keep in a cool place for a while.