Green Tomato Mincemeat

Ingredients

• One peck of green tomatoes
• one peck of green apples
• five pounds of soft sugar
• one pound of raisins
• two tablespoons of cinnamon
• one tablespoon of cloves
• one tablespoon of salt
• two teaspoons of nutmeg
• one teaspoon of ginger
• one cupful of boiled cider
• one cupful of boiled vinegar
• one cupful of chopped suet

Method

1. 1

   Chop tomatoes quite fine, drain, cover with water, put on fire and scald; drain.

2. 2

   Repeat this three times.

3. 3

   After draining put on stove, add sugar, suet, salt, raisins and apples chopped fine.

4. 4

   Cook about one hour, then add apples, vinegar and cider.

5. 5

   Cook a few minutes longer and can.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GREEN TOMATO MINCEMEAT—One peck of green. tomatoes, one peck of green apples, five pounds of soft sugar, — one pound of raisins, two tablespoons of cinnamon, one table- spoon of cloves, one tablespoon of salt, two teaspoons of nut- meg, one teaspoon of ginger, one cupful of boiled cider, one -. eupful of boiled vinegar, one cupful of chopped suet

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