Chow-Chow

Ingredients

• 2 quarts small green tomatoes
• 12 small cucumbers
• 3 red peppers
• 1 cauliflower
• 2 bunches celery
• 1 pint small onions
• 2 quarts string beans
• ¼ lb. mustard seed
• 2 oz. turmeric
• ½ oz. allspice
• ½ oz. pepper
• ½ oz. clove
• Salt
• 1 gallon vinegar

Steps

1. Prepare vegetables and cut in small pieces, cover with salt, let stand twenty-four hours, and drain. Heat vinegar and spices to boiling-point, add vegetables, and cook until soft.

More recipes with tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, cauliflower, celery, onion, green beans, mustard seed, turmeric, allspice, cloves or vinegar

From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.