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The Pennsylvania German cook book

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Wash, cut in halves and take out the s64*ds of half a bushel of large peaches. In place of seetls, fill with two bunches of celery chopped fine and season to taste with salt and white mustard seed. Press the halves together and tie up in a small stjuare of cheese chdh. Make a syrup of one (|uart of cider vinegar, eight pounds sugar, a little cinnamonPeach Mangoes and cloves. Pour boiling syrup over the mangoes and THK i’f]NNSYiiVANrA c;?:kman cook hook. •17 let stand over night. Next morning pour off syrup and let come to a boil and repeat as before. The third morning boil mang¬ oes in the syrup until you can penetrate them with straw. Tack in jars, pour syrup over them and eeal them tightly. Mrs. Kacher Kefawver. PICKLED PEACHES. Make a syrup with proportion of one quart best cider vinegar to three pints sugar, boil and skim and pour over the fruit boiling hot three successive morn¬ ings. Then drain off the syrui). Put a layer of fruit then sprinkle with bits of cinnamon and whole cloves, then another layer of fruit and spice and so on until all is used. Boil the syrup with a hand¬ ful of each ground cloves and cinnamonPickled Peaches until it is like molasses. Then luiur boiling hot over the fruit. Have enough syrup te cover the fruit well, then cover closely. Miss Zeiber. UNIVERSAL PICKLE. One gallon vinegar, one- half pint salt, two ounces of each of following spices: mace, cloves, ginger, white mustard, black pepper and tumeric, one pound of brown sugar, a large box (►f mustard, three or four dozen onions, red pepper and horse¬ radish. You can drop any kind of fruit into this and i)ickle it nicely. CHOW CHOW. One gallon cabbage cut tine, one-lialf gallon tomatoes sliced, one (juart of onions, four tablespoons of mustard, two tablespoons of ginger, one of cloves, two of tumeric, one cup sugar, one half gal- b)n vinegarChow Chow. Mix well, let boil twenty minutes. CATSUP. Oue-half bushel ripe tomatoes, a cup of salt, onions to taste, a teaspoon cayenne pepi)er, a tahlesi)oon mixed spices. Roil three hours, strain through a seive. Add a pint of vinegar and one or two pounds of brown sugarCatsup. Boil again, then bottle and seal. ICES AND SHERBETS. LEMON ICE. Take one orange and four lemons. Press out the juice. Take nearly two cups of sugar, one (|uart of wateLemon Icer, and heat sugar and water, then set on ice until cold, then add juice of fruit and strain through a cheesecloth or line sieve, then freeze. Take any fresh fruit and the proportion of sugar and water and make as the above. Or add the fruit to any ordinary ice cream, and freeze. PINEAPPLE SHERBET. One grated pineapple, the juice of two large oranges, the juice of one lemon, two cups suj^ar, one pint water, one large spoon gelatine and one pint of creamPineapple Sherbet. Soak gelatine, then dissolve in liot water, Hild sugar, then the juice of the lemon and oranges and tin* jiineapple, strain through a sieve. Freeze when fr(>zen to a niusli add the cream and iiack in mould to harden. STRAWBERRY SHERBET. Take two cups of strawberry juice, two cups of water, one cup of sugar, the juice of one lemonStrawberry Sherbet. Boil sugar and water to¬ gether fifteen minutes, add the straw¬ berry and lemon juice. Strain and freeze. LEMON GINGER SHERBET. Lemon Ginger Sherbet