Uncooked Chow

Ingredients

• One-third pint white mustard seed
• ½ oz. turmeric
• 1½ boxes ground mustard
• ¼ pint olive oil
• 1 cup salt
• 2½ pounds cabbage
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 green peppers
• 3 quarts green tomatoes

Method

1. 1

   Mix mustard, salt, sugar, turmeric, and olive oil together.

2. 2

   Chop cabbage, tomatoes, and peppers and scald with enough strong vinegar to cover and let stand six hours.

3. 3

   Drain well, mix with first mixture in a stone crock, cover with fresh cold vinegar.

4. 4

   Tie up with good cloth, and after five days stir well and put in jars.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anson County cook book (1928) by First Baptist Church (Wadesboro, N.C.), page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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