French Sweet Pickle

Ingredients

• One peck green tomatoes
• six large onions
• two teaspoons of baking soda
• two pounds of brown sugar
• two ounces of cinnamon
• one ounce of ground cloves
• one-half pound of white mustard seed
• three quarts of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Chop tomatoes and onions, salt, and let stand overnight.

2. 2

   Drain and cover with vinegar.

3. 3

   Add baking soda and boil for 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Mix sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and mustard seed, then add to kettle with vinegar.

5. 5

   Drain tomatoes again, add to spice mixture, and cook for an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Sweet Pickle. — One peck green tomatoes chopped and aix large onions sliced. Salt them and let stand over night. Then drain oS the watery part and cover with vinegar, add two teaspoons of baking soda dissolved in a little water, and let the whole boil for 15 minutes. Take two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of cinnamon, one ounce of ground cloves and one-half pound of white mustard seed and mix dry. Put this in the kettle with three quarts of vinegar

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