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The new Kentucky home cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take one-half peck of green tomatoes, two dozen large cucumbers, one dozen white onions, one-half dozen green peppers, two roots of horse-radish, all chopped together. Sprinkle a little salt through it, and put into a colander. Let it remain a few hours to drain off the water; season with ground spices — namely, black pepper, mustard, and cloves — to the taste. Put all in a jar, and pour over just enough cold cider vinegar to cover well✪ Chowchow. Sweeten the vin- egar, if preferred. Mrs. Amanda Tuerman. TOMATO CHOWCHOW. Take one peck of green tomatoes, one dozen large cucum- bers pared, one dozen large onions, six large red peppers, one large head of cabbage, chopped separately and sprinkled with salt ; let stand separately one night, then drain and mix all well together in a large bowl, with one-half tea-cup- ful each of black and white mustard-seed, one tea-cupful of grated horse-radish, three table-spoonfuls of ground black pepper, one table-spoonful of celery-seed. Cover with good cider vinegar cold, and mix well before putting in jars. Mrs. S. P. McDowell. 106 The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. CHOWCHOW, Take two dozen large cucumbers, ✪ Tomato Chowchow one dozen onions, one dozen green peppers, two large heads of cabbage. Chop all • together and sprinkle with salt ; let it stand overnight ; then drain and take one gallon of cider vinegar, add three pounds of sugar, three-fourths of a pound of white mustard-seed, three-fourths of a pound of black mustard-seed, one-fourth of a pound of ground mustard; pour it over the pickle and boil until tender. Add one-fourth of a pound of celery- seed after it is boiled. Mrs. Paxton Marshall. SLICED CUCUMBER CATSUP. Slice half a bushel of cucumbers, peel and slice a small peck of onions. Cover them with salt, and let them stand all night. Wash in cold water, and drain through a colan- der, then mix with the followiug spices: Half a tea-cupful of celery-seed, a small tea-cupful of white mustard-seed, a table-spoonful of allspice, a table-spoonful of cloves, a tea- spoonful of mace, a handful of ciuuamon bark, a table- spoonful of black pepper, eight red peppers cut in small pieces, a tea-spoonful of alum, two ounces of tumeric, and three pounds of sugar✪ Sliced Cucumber Catsup. Put all into a porcelain kettle, cover with vinegar, and let it thoroughly scald. Use whole spices. Mrs. W. O. Dodd. MUSX-MELON MANGOES. Have the melons young and tender. Cut a piece out of the side the length of the melon, and take out the contents. Secure one end of each to its own melon by a stitch made with a needle and white thread. Put them in cold brine for ten days, then soak them in fresh water twenty-four hours, drain, and wipe them dry, and then fill them with the following mixture: Half a pound of black and white mustard-seed, half a pound of grated horse-radish, sliced onions, one ounce each of black pepper, mace, cloves, tu- The' New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 107 ✪ Muskmelon Mangoes