Green Tomato Pickles (Sweet)

Ingredients

• One peck of green tomatoes
• a dozen good-sized onions
• Six red peppers
• one cup of sugar
• one tablespoonful of ground allspice
• one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon
• a teaspoonful of cloves
• one tablespoonful of mustard
• three pints of good vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Slice the tomatoes and sprinkle with salt the day before pickling.

2. 2

   Drain the liquor in the morning.

3. 3

   Layer tomatoes and onions in a kettle, sprinkling spices between layers.

4. 4

   Pour vinegar to cover and boil until tender.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GREEN TOMATO PICKLES. (Sweet.) One peck of green tomatoes, sliced the day before you are ready for pickling, sprinkling them through and through with salt, not too heavily; in the morning drain off the liquor that will drain from them. Have a dozen good-sized onions rather coarsely sliced; take a suitable kettle and put in a layer of the sliced tomatoes, then of onions, and between each layer sprinkle the following spices: Six red peppers chopped coarsely, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of ground allspice, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, a teaspoonful of cloves, one tablespoonful of mustard. Turn pver three pints of good vinegar

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