Sweet delight with vicious bite

Someone mentioned to me today that Julia Childs suggested placing a vanilla pod into a jar of sugar to make vanilla sugar.  I have some dried tsien tsien peppers; I'm going to place a couple in a jar of sugar, then using a mortar and pestle, grind up a tiny amount to sprinkle in making hot pepper sugar.  Oh my, such yumminess.

(Oooh...wasabi-sugar!  Must.hit.Penzey's on the way home)