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Favorite recipes (North Carolina, 1948)

1948

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Presented as published in 1948. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
1 peck small white cucumbers 1 pint water 1 cup salt 38 cups brown sugar 3 pints vinegarCucumber Pickles Tablespoon tumeric Wash cucumbers. Cover with salt and chipped ice or ice cubes and let stand at least two hours. Wash and drain. Boil vinegar and water with sugar to which have been added handful of whole pickling spices. Let boil 10 minutes. Add cucumbers. Let come to boil but do not boil. Fill sterilized jars with cucumbers and fill with hot vinegar. Mrs. Robert Erwin SWEET PICKLES Two gallons of small cucumbers, 1 pint of salt, add water to cover and put weight on so that no cucumber is out of water. Let stand one week. Pour off brine and split each pickle. Cover with boiling water and let stand over night. Pour off and cover with more boiling water with large spoon alum, and let stand over night. Drain. Prepare following mixture: 8 cups sugar 2 tablespoons celery seed 2% cups vinegar 1 box whole cinnamon Heat this mixture to boiling point, pour over pickles and let stand over night. Pour mixture off next morning, heat to boiling point, pour over pickles, let stand over night. Third day heat mixture and pickles to boling point and seal in jars. Mrs. Horace Lutz, Sr. BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES 1 gallon cucumbers 2 green peppers, shredded 8 small white onions % cup salt Select crisp fresh cucumbers; wash but do not peel. Slice crosswise in paper thin slices, (you’ll be repaid for this seemingly tedious task.) Slice the onions thin and cut the peppers into fine shreds. Mix the salt with the vegetables (cucumbers ,onions and peppers) and bury pieces of cracked ice (1 quart) in the mixture. Cover with weighted lid and let stand three hours, then drain very thoroughly. Meanwhile make a pickling syrup of: 13 teaspoons of ground cloves 1 teaspoon of celery seed 5 cupfuls of sugar 5 cups of vinegar (not too strong) 2 tablespoons of mustard seed 13 teaspoons of tumeric Mix the sugar ,tumeric and cloves together. Add the mustard and celery seed, and the vinegar, and pour over the sliced pickles. Place over a low heat and paddle occasionally, using a wooden spoon. Heat the mixture to scalding, but do not boil. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. Mrs. George W. Killian - 6a eS cee wet! ; s 38 CORINTH GUILD CUCUMBER PICKLES (Cold Process) 1 gal. vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 cup salt 23 tablespoons ground mustard 1 teaspoon saccharine Wash small cucumbers clean and dry on cloth. Pack in jars and pour in above mixture. Seal. Mrs. Joseph Murphy ICED GREEN TOMATO PICKLES Soak for 24 hours, 7 lbs. sliced green tomatoes in two gallons of water to which 38 cups of lime have been added. Drain and soak in fresh water four hours, changing water every hour. Let drain—place in pot 5 lbs. sugar, 3 pints vinegar and 1 teaspoon each of cloves, ginger, allspice, mace, celery seed, cinnamon. Bring syrup to boiling point; pour over tomatoes and let stand over night. In morning boil for one hour. Seal in glass jars. Mrs. Joseph Murphy CHILI SAUCE 24 large ripe tomatoes 2 teaspoons ginger 2 green peppers 2 teaspoons nutmeg 6 large onions 2 teaspoons allspice — 11 tablespoons brown sugar 2 teaspoons cloves 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon 4 cups vinegar Wash and chop fine the tomatoes, peppers, and onions. Add other ingredients, place in heavy kettle and cook slowly for about 2 hours or until thick. Stir frequently while cooking. Pour into sterilized jars and seal. | Mrs. Robert Erwin 14 DAY PICKLES 14 Day Pickles