Cabbage Pickle

Ingredients

• One large head of cabbage
• eight onions
• twelve cucumbers (slice the cucumbers lengthwise in thin slices)
• three tablespoons of salt
• two pounds of sugar
• two quarts of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Put cabbage in brine for one week, change brine and remain for another week.

2. 2

   Soak for twenty minutes, press dry, scald with vinegar and spices, pack in a jar, layer with spices, cover with vinegar, boil, and seal.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 165. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cabbage Pickle. — Cut cabbage into quarters; put in brine and remain one week. Change brine and remain one week longer. Soak about twenty minutes ; press in cloth till dry. Scald with vinegar, a little tumeric, cloves and allspice. Pack in a large stone jar and layer with the following spices: One pint mustard seed, four ounces race ginger, three ounces black pepper, three ounces allspice, one ounce cloves, one Ounce celery seed, three handfuls horse radish, four lemons cut up, four pounds brown sugar. Cover well with cold vinegar. Fine- Miss Ella McGuire. Cabbage Pickle. — One large head of cabbage, eight onions, twelve cucumbers (slice the cucumbers lengthwise in thin slices, three tablespoons of salt sprinkled over). Put the pickle in a sack and hang up twenty-four hours to drain. Next morn- ing take it out and sprinkle over it two tablespoonfuls each of ginger, black pepper, celery seed and mustard ; one tablespoon- ful each of mace and tumeric. Mix well and put in a stone 288 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. COOKSEY BROS. Staple and Fancy Groceries SPECIALTIES Vegetables, Fruits, Country Produce, Etc. Cor. Main and Church Sts. Both Phones 68. Robertson-Redman Go. 105-107 S. Market St. Jackson, Tenn, DRY GOODS Clothing for Men and B03S, Millinery, Tailor Made Suits and Suits for Ladies and Misses, Shoes, Hats and Caps, Furnishing Goods. Entire stock new and up-to-date. jar. Put two pounds of sugar to two quarts of vinegar

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