Green Tomato Pickle

Ingredients

• a peck of green tomatoes
• a quart of onions
• half a cup of salt
• six quarts of vinegar
• three sweet peppers chopped fine
• a quarter of a pound of white mustard seed
• an ounce of whole cloves
• a pound of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Slice tomatoes and onions, sprinkle with salt, drain, then cook with vinegar, peppers, mustard seed, and cloves.

2. 2

   Add sugar before removing from fire.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cookery (1899) by Emma P. Ewing, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Tomato Pickle. — Slice together a peck of green tomatoes and a quart of onions, and sprinkle the mix- ture with half a cup of salt. Let stand six or eight hours, drain off the water, put the prepared tomatoes into a preserving kettle, add six quarts of vinegar, three Cannings Preserving, and Pickling 177 sweet peppers chopped fine, a quarter of a pound of white mustard seed, and an ounce of whole cloves. Boil slowly three or four hours, stirring frequently, and half an hour before removing from the fire add a pound of sugar

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