Authentic Inner Beauty

While this is not an original recipe, I feel the need to document it here since it is the original, and no longer made, version of Inner Beauty hot sauce. Inner Beauty was a mustard base Jamaican style hot sauce that I use to buy by the case. When it was no longer available in stores, I purchased every bottle I could online.

Then the dark ages came, no Inner Beauty anywhere. I scoured the Internet with a handful of dedicated fanatics for years. One day, I found an interview online with the original maker Chris Schlesinger (mad genius!). Attached to the article was a picture, snapped with a cell phone, of the original hand written recipe that was framed on the creator's wall.

Here is the original version, followed by a scaled down version.

The Historic Original Inner Beauty Hot Sauce Recipe
(courtesy Chris Schlesinger, East Coast Grill)

• 5 lb scotch bonnet or habanero peppers
• 1 gallon yellow mustard
• 1/2 lb brown sugar
• 1 quart orange juice
• 1/2 gallon white vinegar
• 1 cup honey
• 1 cup molasses
• 46 oz. papaya juice
• 46 oz. pineapple juice
• 1/2 gallon peanut oil
• 6 oz. each of cumin, chili, curry, tumeric
• 2 oz. all spice
• salt and pepper

The Home Style Inner Beauty Hot Sauce Recipe
(courtesy Chris Schlesinger, from Big Flavors of the Hot Sun)

• 12 to 15 scotch bonnet or habanero peppers, roughly chopped
• 1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted and mashed
• 1 cup cheap yellow prepared mustard
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1 tablespoon prepared curry powder
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 cup molasses
• salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste