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Cooks in clover

1889

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Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Chow-Chow, I. — Twenty-five small cucumbers, one quart of onions, two cauliflowers, six green pep- pers, and two quarts of green tomatoes. Cut as small as you like and sprinkle salt over them to make a weak brine; cover with water and let stand over night. In the morning put over the fire, and bring to a scalding heat, but without boiling; then drain in a colander. Boil three quarts of vinegar. Mix together half a pound of ground mustard, half an ounce of turmeric, and one small cup of flour, made into a smooth paste, and stir into the boiling vine- gar; add four cups of sugar and four teaspoons of celery seed. Put the pickles into bottles, pour the dressing over them, and cork. Mrs. F. S. Dates. Chow-Chow, II. — Half a peck of green tomatoes ; one head of cabbage ; ten large onions ; five peppers, chopped fine and salted over night ; half an ounce of celery seed; one ounce of mustard seed; quarter of a pound of brown sugar ; half an ounce of whole cloves; one ounce of turmeric, mixed with a little vinegar ; enough white vinegar to cover. Mrs. G. F. E. Piccalilli, I. — vSlice one peck of green tomatoes, add one pint of salt, and let it stand overnight. Drain oft" the brine, rinse and chop, adding six peppers and twelve onions; scald in weak vinegar; strain off the liquid, adding one cabbage and one cup of horse- radish. Scald one c^uart of vinegar, one pint of molasses, two tablespoons of allspice and one of cloves, and pour over, hot. Aitnt Clarissa. Piccalilli, 11.^ — One gallon of chopped green toma- toes, sprinkled with salt; let them stand one day, CATSUPS AND PICKLES. 27 then drain them well. Chop twelve onions, six small green peppers, two quarts of chopped cabbage, half a pint of grated horse-radish, half a pint of white mustard seed and one tablespoon of black pepper. Cover with boiling vinegar. Mrs. P. R. Watson. Home-Made Pickles. — Take small cucumbers and for three mornings pour hot salt and water over them, in the proportion of one cup of salt to six quarts of water, being careful to have it fresh every morning. The fourth morning take some weak vinegar with small lumps of alum in it, and turn it over the cucumbers, allowing them to remain in it till next day; then take them out of the vine gar, put them in stone jars, glass cans or bottles ; pour over them cold vinegar of good strength, ad ding pieces of red peppers, and plenty of white mustard seed — an ounce of seed to a gallon of vine gar, and a lump of alum the size of a butternut. I Seal the jars and they will keep a long time. Mrs. A. M. Sproull. French Pickles. — Four quarts of green tomatoes, one quart each of small onions and small cucumbers, one small head of cabbage, and one head of cauli- flower. Cut them into small pieces and let them stand twenty-four hours in a light brine ; then boil ten minutes in the brine, and drain in a colander very dry. Dressing: — Six teaspoons of ground mustard, one tablespoon of turmeric powder, one and a half cups of sugar, and one cup of flour. Mix these with water enough to form a paste. Bring to a boiling heat two and a half quarts of vinegar, and six green peppers chopped ; stir in the paste, cook as thick as soft custard, put in the pickles and seal them in fruit cans. Mrs. Frank Hughes. Curry Pickles. — Wash and dry six hundred very 28 COOKS IN CLOVER. Green Tomato Soy