Green Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• a peck of green tomatoes
• ten onions
• three half gallons of vinegar
• three sweet peppers
• a quarter of a pound of white mustard-seed
• an ounce of cloves
• one pound of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Slice the green tomatoes and sprinkle lightly with salt.

2. 2

   Let stand overnight.

3. 3

   Drain the brine in the morning and put in a preserving-kettle with vinegar, chopped sweet peppers, mustard-seed, and cloves.

4. 4

   Boil slowly for three to four hours, stirring frequently.

5. 5

   Half an hour before removing from the fire, add sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking and castle-building (1880) by Emma P. Ewing, Marietta McPherson Greenough, page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

green tomato sauce : Take a peck of green tomatoes and ten onions ; slice and sprinkle lightly with salt. Let stand over night. In the morning drain the brine or water away from it, and put in a preserving-kettle, with three half gallons of vinegar, three sweet peppers, chopped fine, a quarter of a pound of white mustard-seed, and an ounce of cloves. Boil slowly three or four hours, stirring frequently. Half an hour before removing from the fire add one pound of sugar

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