PICKLING
GRANDMA DESSIE WINE'S RED BEETS
1 gal. beets
3c. sugar
2. pickling spice
2 tsp. salt
vinegar
Mix ingredients, and use enough vinegar to cover the beets. Let them
set over night. Taste for sweetness. Heat to boiling. Seal hot.
NOTE: Dissolve sugar in part of hot vinegar
GRANDMA DESSIE WINE'S TOMATO COCKTAIL
Put in blender:
1 med. onion, cut up
4 celery ribs, leaves, and-all, cut up
bay leaf, the size of a quarter
pinch of black pepper
1 pt. water
Put above in blender, add to partially cooked tomatoes. Cook until
done. Put through food mill. Return to fire.
Add:
27, salt
lc. sugar
Bring to boil and can while hot or you can freeze. This takes one
peck of tomatoes. (15 pounds) NOTE: Do not peel the tomatoes.
Di WINE'S KETCHUP
1/2 bushel tomatoes (28 lbs.)
5 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. salt
5c. vinegar
1/4'c. French's Ketchup spice (1/2 pkg.)
2 onions, minced
Wash, peel, and quarter tomatoes. Cook 15 minutes or until soft.
Strain. Bring tomatoes purred to a boil. Cook slowly until reduced to
3/4 previous bulk. Stir frequently. Add sugar, salt, and vinegar.
Add ketchup spice and onion. Continue to cook to desired thickness.
Seal while hot. If a brighter color in desired, add 3 T. paprika
before adding the sugar.PICKLING
DU HOLLINGER*S FRESH PICKLES
2 qt. pickles
onion, sliced (optional)
2/3 c. water
2/3 c. vinegar
2/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
When boiling hot, pour over the pickles. Put on lid and set stand
until cold. Then refrigerate and eat.
SHL STOFFEL'S SWEET {IC_PICKLES
3 doz. cucumbers, sliced (plastic dish pan full)
1/2 doz. onions, sliced
3 red pimentos OR mango, grated
1/2 doz. carrots, cut up
3c. sugar
3c. cider vinegar
1 tsp. mustard seed
3 tsp. celery seed
1 tsp. turmeric
Slice or chunk pickles and let stand in salt water a couple of hours
or more. Rinse. Slice onions, and let stand in salt water 1 hour.
Rinse. Cook carrots half done. Clean mangoes. Drain pickles and add
vinegar and spices. Bring to a good boil. Then add carrots, drained
onions, and mangos and heat through good and can. NOTE: Use about 3
T. salt in the water. Can also add green or yellow beans, small green
tomatoes, cauliflower, etc.
SHIRLEY STOFFEL'S DILL PICKLES
4 qt. sliced cucumbers
61. salt
3c. vinegar
3c, water
Heat all but the cucumbers to boiling. Put sliced cucumbers in jar.
Add 3 pepper corns, 5 - 6 garlic seeds to jars. Pour water mixture
over the pickles to within 1/2 inch of the jar's top. Put 2 small
head of dill to each jar on top
IONE COLE SLAW
1/2 ¢. mayonnaise
27. vinegar
1 T. honey
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/4 tsp. celery seed
Combine and pour over 4 cups shredded cabbage.PICKLING
(OM'S 1974 TOMATO SAUCE
Fill a large Teflon pan full of thick tomato juice,, about 1 gallon.
Put in blender
3 onions, cut up
8 carrots, cut up
4 ribs celery and leaves, cut up
3 green peppers, cut up
Add this to the tomato juice and boil.
Add:
1/4 c. sugar
little clove
1 bay leaf
salt to taste
pepper to taste
Quit boiling and continue to cook slow until thick.
BARB _BECK'S ZUCCHINI RELISH
Grind and let set over night:
10 c. zucchini
4c. onion
Rinse and drain the zucchini and onion.
Mix and add to the above:
T. salt
1/4 c. vinegar
c. sugar
T. cornstarch
tsp. nutmeg
tsp. dry mustard
tsp. celery seed
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 peppers, diced
a little green food coloring
Heat until mixture comes to boiling. Put in jars while hot and seal.
Makes 7 pints.
NeeNUNU
DIANNE HOLLINGER'S FROZEN PICKLES
2 at. sliced pickles
1 onion, sliced
Pit 1 T. salt on the above and soak for 2 hours.
Drain and add:
1c. vinegar
1c. sugar
Adjust to taste.
Put pickles in containers. Pour vinegar and sugar mixture over them
and freeze. NOTE: The vinegar does not have to be hot, just so the
Sugar is dissolved. Will keep several weeks in the refrigerator.