Chow-Chow, No. 3

Ingredients

• One large head of bleached cabbage
• two dozen cucum- bers (medium size)
• one dozen green peppers
• one gallon green tomatoes
• half a dozen onions (silver - skinned)
• a teaspoonful of salt
• one pound and a half of sugar
• two table-^spoonf uls of turmeric
• one ounce of cloves
• half an ounce of mace
• two ounces of white mustard - seed
• one nutmeg
• two quarts of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Chop onions and pour hot water over them.

2. 2

   Let stand, then drain.

3. 3

   Pour weakened vinegar over the mixture and let it stand for 24 hours.

4. 4

   Add sugar and spices, then boil.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 30 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 124. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chow-Chow, No. 3. One large head of bleached cabbage, two dozen cucum- bers (medium size), one dozen green peppers, one gallon green tomatoes, half a dozen onions (silver - skinned). Chop the onions, and pour hot water over them, letting VntQINIA COOKERY-BOOK, 368 them stand ten minutes ; chop the ingredients fine, and sprinkle salt over them, adding the onions. Let them stand all night, and then drain two hours in the morning ; pour weakened vinegar over them, and let them stand twenty-four hours ; pour off that vinegar, and to every gallon of the mixture put one pound and a half of sugar ; put two table-^spoonf uls of turmeric in a Swiss muslin bag and drop it into the pot for coloring matter. For seasoning put one ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mace, two ounces of white mustard - seed, and one nutmeg to each gallon of vegetables. Two quarts of vinegar for the same quantity of pickling matter. PlOKLBD MUSBBOOMS. ' Wash the buttons well from the dirt, without peeling, and let them drain. Peel the large ones. To nine quarts of mushrooms put two table - spoonfuls of mace, one of cloves finely pulverized ; Cayenne pepper to the taste ; two or three pieces of garlic and a teaspoonful of salt

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