Cucumber Pickles
1 gal. vinegar
1 cup salt, 2 of sugar
3/4 cup mustard (dry)
For 300 small pickles double recipe. Wash cucumbers and dry. Fill cans and pour in liquid. No cooking.
Celery Relish
5 large ripe tomatoes
5 bunches celery
5 onions
1 sweet red pepper
Chop all fine and add
10 tablespoons brown sugar
3 cups vinegar
3 tablespoons salt
Heat thoroughly and can.
Pepper Relish
1 doz. green peppers,
1 of red peppers
2 qts. onions, 1 of vinegar
2 cups granulated sugar
3 tablespoons salt
Seed peppers, chop fine, and pour boiling water over them. Let stand while chopping onions. Drain peppers, rinse with cold water. Add onions, bring to boil. Boil vinegar, sugar, and salt and pour over mixture. Seal hot.
Pineapple Pickles
7 lbs. pineapple
3 lbs. sugar
1 pt. vinegar
1/2 oz. each stick cinnamon and stick
cloves
Slice pineapple 1/2 inch thick and cut in pieces. Put in crock sprinkling spices between layers, pouring on hot vinegar. Scald sugar and vinegar three days in succession and pour onto fruit hot. The fourth day boil liquid with fruitand can.
Pickled Sweet Apples
7 lbs. pared and quartered apples
3 lbs. sugar
1 qt. vinegar simmered with 1 teaspoon cloves and
1 1/2 sticks cinnamon
Put apples in liquid and cook slowly until tender. Fill cans. If syrup is not thick enough simmer to proper consistency. Keep cans covered.
Peach Chutney
3 lbs. peaches
5 lbs. chopped apples
1 lb. each raisins and currants
1 onion, 1 red pepper
2 lbs. sugar
1 qt. malt vinegar
2 teaspoons each cinnamon, ginger,
salt, 1 of cloves
Dissolve sugar in a little water and cook 1 hour slowly. Seal while hot. Fine for cold meats.
Spiced Currants, Cherries, and
Spiced Currants, Cherries, and Similar Fruits
5 lbs. currants
4 lbs. sugar
1 qt. vinegar
Spice to taste and boil until thick. Seal.
Watermelon Pickles
Put rind in weak salt water over night. Wash in cold
water in the morning. Cover with cold water and add alum
the size of a nutmeg, boil until tender. Drain and cover
with cold vinegar. Add sugar, cloves and cinnamon
and boil until preserved. One quart vinegar, 3 pints sugar,
2 teaspoons cloves and 4 tablespoons cinnamon.
Watermelon Pickles
Put rind in weak salt water over night. Wash in cold water in the morning. Cover with cold water and add alum the size of a nutmeg, boil until tender. Drain and cover with cold vinegar. Add sugar, cloves and cinnamon and boil until preserved. One quart vinegar, 3 pints sugar, 2 teaspoons cloves and 4 tablespoons cinnamon.
Dutch Pickles
12 large cucumbers, peeled and sliced
12 onions, peeled and sliced
Let above stand in salt water over night. Drain and add
1 pt. vinegar
3 teaspoons flour
1/2 teaspoon each salt and mustard
1/4 teaspoon tumeric
2 cups sugar, granulated
Let come to boil and add 1/2 can pimentoes, then onions
and cucumbers. Boil 10 minutes and seal while hot.