Sweet Vegetable Pickles

Ingredients

• Take one peck of good solid green tomatoes
• and onions to suit the taste and fancy
• or five quarts of tomatoes
• and three of onions
• sprinkle a pint of fine salt
• Ten or twelve ounces brown sugar
• a tablespoonful each of ground cinnamon
• and cloves
• and a spoonful of crushed white mustard seed

Method

1. 1

   Slice tomatoes and peppers, sprinkle with salt, let stand for 24 hours, drain.

2. 2

   Cover with prepared vinegar and boil for 15 minutes before putting in jars.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 482. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SWEET VEGETABLE PICKLES. Take one peck of good solid green tomatoes, and onions to suit the taste and fancy, or five quarts of tomatoes and three of onions ; peel the onions as for boiling ; wash and dry the tomatoes ; cut them in thin slices; cut in small pieces, six large green peppers, carefully leaving out the seeds ; put the slices in a large pan and sprinkle a pint of fine salt on them ; let them stand about twenty-four hours ; drain off all the liquor, carefully pressing down the cover ; when they are sufficiently PICKLES. 583 drained put in the preserving kettle and cover well with vinegar, pre- pared thus : Ten or twelve ounces brown sugar to the quart, a table- spoonful each of ground cinnamon and cloves, and a spoonful of crushed white mustard seed

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