Cover the beans with water and soak overnight or at least 6 hours.Drain.Add ham, onion, celery, bell pepper, parsley, bay leaves and garlic.Cover with water and bring to a boil.Reduce to low heat an ...
Scramble meat and onion; cook until done, then drain fat off. Add beans, tomatoes and tomato sauce; let cook for about 15 minutes.Add seasoning; stir and let simmer for about 5 minutes. Add ketchup; ...
Peel peaches.Boil sugar, vinegar, water and spices until a moderately thick syrup.Add peaches, about a dozen at a time. Boil until tender enough to stick with a straw to the seed.Stir occasionally.F ...
Wash and slice cucumbers and chop onions and bell peppers. Let stand 3 hours in cold water and salt, then drain.Mix vinegar, sugar and spice and boil.Put drained cucumbers in and heat, but do not bo ...
To prepare chopped figs, pour boiling water over figs; let stand 10 minutes. Drain, stem and chop figs. Measure and add 3/4 cup water and sugar to figs. Slowly bring to boiling, stirring occasionall ...
Dissolve salt in cold water; pour over watermelon rind.Stir in additional water if necessary to cover rind.Let stand in cool place 8 hours.Drain rind; cover with cold water.Heat to boiling.Cook unco ...
Let cucumbers and onion slices stand 2 hours in salt.Drain and rinse well.Add vinegar and sugar.Let stand 1/2 hour or until juice covers cucumbers.Freeze in whatever size containers you wish to use. ...
Wash and crush berries.Mix berries and sugar.Let stand 20 minutes; stir occasionally.Dissolve Sure-Jell in water and boil 1 minute.Add to fruit and sugar.Stir 2 minutes.Put in glasses and let stand ...
Wash and cut cucumbers into thick slices or quarters.Heat water and salt to boiling; add cucumbers.Cover pan tightly to prevent escape of steam and heat again to boiling.Reduce heat at once and simm ...
Mix the sugar and flour and add vinegar and water; cook until thick.Add salt and butter, then diced beets and reheat before serving. ...