Superior Mixed Pickle

Ingredients

• one-half peck of green tomatoes
• two dozen large cucumbers
• one dozen white onions
• one-half dozen green peppers
• two roots of horse-radish
• one gallon of cider vinegar
• three pounds of sugar
• one ounce of tumeric
• the yelks of one dozen hard-boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cut up cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, and all kinds of fruit.

2. 2

   Add small ears of corn, beans, and sliced onions.

3. 3

   Cover with salt and let stand for 24 hours.

4. 4

   Drain, add spices, sugar, tumeric, and yolks.

5. 5

   Boil with cider vinegar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 13 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUPERIOR MIXED PICKLE. Cut up cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, and all kinds of fruit that you have, add small ears of corn, beans, onions small and sliced; cover with salt, let it stand twenty-four hours; drain then from this brine, and add all kinds of spices, one ounce of each. To two gallons of pickle allow four pounds of sugar, one ounce of tumeric, and the yelks of one dozen hard-boiled eggs mashed or creamed with the spices. Boil all well with the best cider vinegar. Mrs. Samuel Stockwell, sr., Flemlxgsburg, Ky. CHOWCHOW. Take one-half peck of green tomatoes, two dozen large cucumbers, one dozen white onions, one-half dozen green peppers, two roots of horse-radish, all chopped together. Sprinkle a little salt through it, and put into a colander. Let it remain a few hours to drain off the water; season with ground spices — namely, black pepper, mustard, and cloves — to the taste. Put all in a jar, and pour over just enough cold cider vinegar to cover well. Sweeten the vin- egar, if preferred. Mrs. Amanda Tuerman. TOMATO CHOWCHOW. Take one peck of green tomatoes, one dozen large cucum- bers pared, one dozen large onions, six large red peppers, one large head of cabbage, chopped separately and sprinkled with salt ; let stand separately one night, then drain and mix all well together in a large bowl, with one-half tea-cup- ful each of black and white mustard-seed, one tea-cupful of grated horse-radish, three table-spoonfuls of ground black pepper, one table-spoonful of celery-seed. Cover with good cider vinegar cold, and mix well before putting in jars. Mrs. S. P. McDowell. 106 The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. CHOWCHOW, Take two dozen large cucumbers, one dozen onions, one dozen green peppers, two large heads of cabbage. Chop all • together and sprinkle with salt ; let it stand overnight ; then drain and take one gallon of cider vinegar, add three pounds of sugar

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