Cucumber Catsup

Ingredients

• three dozen rather large cucumbers
• four large onions
• a cup of salt
• 1 cup white mustard seed
• ½ cup black mustard seed
• 2 tablespoons celery seed
• 1 tablespoon small white pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop cucumbers and onions, sprinkle with salt, and drain overnight.

2. 2

   Mix with mustard seeds and pack in jars.

3. 3

   Boil vinegar to fill jars and pour over cucumbers.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cucumber Catsup. Pocl a]id clio|) hue three dozen rather large t-ucumbci's. Add to them four large onions, cboi)])ed, and ^ n\' a cu|) of sail'. 'SWx tl-orougldy and tie loosely in a cheese cloth bag. Lav it into a colanyh-r and allow it to drain over night. In the morning add to it I cup white mustard seed, ^ cup lil-u-k mustard seed, 2 table- spoons cele]T s(\.d. 1 tablespoon small white pepper. ^lix well and pack in glass jfirs, filling them only half full. Boil enough vinegar to fill jars. With a silver fork stir the cucumbers as you ])i)ur over them the vinegar, to make sure the whole juass is satui-ated. Seal and set in n dark place until ready for use. Cucumber Catsup. Idu-ee dozen cucumbers and IS onions peeled and chopped fine. Sprinkle over them f of a pint of table salt and ]Mit in a sieve to drain over night. Add a teacupful of mustard seed, ^ teacupful of ground pepper. Mix well and cover with cider vinegar. . Mrs. Fisher. Grape Catsup. Four ]iounds of grapes stewed until soft; put through a colander, add three pounds of sugai- (hi'own ])i-eferred) , two taljlespoons of cinnamon, two tablespoons of cloves, one cofi'eecu)) vinegar: let it simuuT to minutes and seal up. Mrs. Moyle. Cold Catsup. One-luilf peck of ripe tomatoes cho])ped fine, 1 quart of vinegar, 1 cup of onions cijopped fine, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cuj) of mustard seed, ^ cup of salt

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