Chow-Chow

Ingredients

• One gallon cabbage
• one gallon tomatoes
• one dozen green peppers (take out seed)
• six cups brown sugar
• two dozen onions
• one cup mustard seed
• four tablespoons celery seed
• one and one-half cups salt
• three teaspoons mustard

Method

1. 1

   Mix cabbage, tomatoes, onions, and salt together overnight.

2. 2

   Press out all water and add sugar and other ingredients.

3. 3

   Cook for twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 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.

Chow-Chow. — One gallon green tomatoes (after they are chopped), two gallons cabbage, one quart onions, twelve green peppers. Salt and let stand over night, or till next evening. Then put in a basket and let drip over night. In the morning put in a large porcelain kettle and cover with vinegar and water (half and half). Let stay two days. Then put in basket and drip all night, and in the morning add one and one-half gallons cucumber pickle chopped fine, and one pint grated horse radish, half ounce white mustard seed, one ounce celery seed, half teacup black pepper (ground), two ounces pulverized cinnamon, two ounces tumeric, three pounds brown sugar; cover with vinegar and let boil twenty minutes, and while hot add one-quarter pound mustard. — Mrs. H. R. Lancaster. Chow-Chow. — One gallon cabbage, one gallon tomatoes, one dozen green peppers (take out seed), six cups brown sugar, two dozen onions, one cup mustard seed, four tablespoons celery seed, four tablespoons celery seed, one and one-half cups salt, Company^ HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 287 three teaspoons mustard

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