u/LittleEzz

I made friends with a local farmer's market vender and as we were talking she mentioned that she had some dried (freeze dried maybe) peppers. She shared some sugar rush peach, hot peppers, and gold habaneros. My ultimate goal is to make a fruit forward, hot sauce, preferably in small batches as I experiment. To that goal I had a few questions:

1. Should I rehydrate them or grind them before using them?
2. Does anyone have any good, simple recopies or approaches to building a hot sauce, dependent on approach (rehydrated vs ground)?

Thanks so much for all the wisdom!