Chow Chow

Ingredients

• 1 gal. chopped cabbage
• 1 gal. sliced green tomatoes
• 6 medium onions
• 2 pounds sugar
• 1 gallon vinegar
• 4 tbsp white mustard seed
• 4 tbsp celery seed
• 4 tbsp whole cloves
• 4 tbsp mace
• 3 pods hot pepper
• 4 tbsp salt

Method

1. 1

   Let cabbage, tomatoes, and onions soak in salt water for 1 hour.

2. 2

   Drain.

3. 3

   Add vinegar, sugar, spices, and cook for 40 minutes.

4. 4

   Seal in hot jars.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOW CHOW Fart I 12 green peppers, chopped 12 pounds cabbage, chopped 12 onions, chopped Part II 3 pounds brown sugar l[8 cup tumeric V-j gallon vinegar 1|8 cup white celery seed 3 i cup salt 1|8 cup celery salt Heat vinegar, add dry ingredients and stir well. Pour over pepper, onions and cabbage. This may be put in jars and used later. Mrs. O. T. Snow ICED GREEN TOMATO PICKLE Soak 24 hours 7 pounds of sliced green tomatoes in 2 gallons of water in which 2 cups of hydrated lime is dissolved. Then soak tomatoes in fresh water for 4 hours changing water every hour. Drain well. Make a syrup of 5 pounds sugar and 3 pints of vinegar, tea- spoon each of cloves, mace, allspice, celery seed, 4 roots of ginger and 4 sticks of cinnamon. Boil this for about 10 minutes and pour over the sliced tomatoes. Let stand over night. Boil syrup and tomatoes for 1 hour the next day. Seal in glass jars. Mrs. W. B. Strachan PICKLED CHERRIES Wash but do not remove seed or stems of sour red cherries. To the desired amount of cherries add % of their weight or measure of sugar. Sprinkle the sugar over the fruit in layers and let stand over night. In the morning, stir gently until sugar is dissolved, then drain juice well from cherries. Tie a small quantity of whole apices in a cheese cloth bag, drop this into juice and boil it down until it is % of the original quantity . . . while the syrup is hot pour it over well drained cherries and add 2 tablespoons of well flavored vinegar to each pint. Seal and let stand about 2 weeks to become well blended before using. (So different for a party plate). Mrs. Roy Burdette, Jr. CHILLI SAUCE 12 large tomatoes 1 tablespoon mustard 2 medium onions, chopped fine 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3 sweet green peppers 1 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons salt 2 tablespoons sugar 3 cups vinegar Blanch tomatoes and cold dip, peel and quarter. Chop onions and pepper, combine ingredients. Cook until thick. Seal at once in hot jars. Mrs. Marvin Rone CHOW CHOW 1 gal. chopped cabbage 4 tbsp white mustard seed 1 gal. sliced green tomatoes 4 tbsp celery seed 6 medium onions 4 tbsp whole cloves 2 pounds sugar 2 tbsp mace 1 gallon vinegar 4 tbsp salt 3 pods hot pepper

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