Muskmelon Mangoes
From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884
Serves 6
Recipe by Mrs. America Hove.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
MUSX-MELON MANGOES. Have the melons young and tender. Cut a piece out of the side the length of the melon, and take out the contents. Secure one end of each to its own melon by a stitch made with a needle and white thread. Put them in cold brine for ten days, then soak them in fresh water twenty-four hours, drain, and wipe them dry, and then fill them with the following mixture: Half a pound of black and white mustard-seed, half a pound of grated horse-radish, sliced onions, one ounce each of black pepper, mace, cloves, tu- The' New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 107 meric, race-ginger cut fine, and red or green pepper chopped fine. Moisten the mustard-seed with hot vinegar; mix all well together ; put two small cloves of garlic and two table- spoonfuls of sugar in each melon; press the filling in firmly, and sew in the piece with strong Avhite thread; then lay them in a porcelain kettle, with a lump of alum the size of a walnut; pour over them enough weak vinegar to cover them well, and let them come to a boiling over a slew fire. "When cold, take them out and drain them, pack them in a jar, and cover them with cold vinegar sweetened to taste. Mrs. America Hove. OIL MANGOES. Take green tender melons, cut them open, take out the seed, fill them with salt, and let them lie twenty-four hours. Make a filling of one pound of white mustard-seed, one pound of grated horse-radish, half a pound of garlic, one ounce of green peppers chopped fine, one ounce of race-gin- ger cut fine, two ounces of allspice, one ounce of mace
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