Chow-Chow - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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1 peck green tomatoes (12.5 lb.)
10 to 12 medium sized onions
6 to 8 red sweet peppers
1/2 c. prepared horseradish
3 sticks cinnamon
1 Tbsp. celery seed
1/2 pt. vinegar
3 to 4 c. sugar
1 small head green cabbage
6 to 8 green sweet peppers
1/2 c. salt
1 Tbsp. whole cloves
1 Tbsp. white mustard seed
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 pt. water
Preparation
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Slice tomatoes and peppers; add salt and let sit overnight. Drain, but do not wash.
Grind all these ingredients; put in a kettle with all other ingredients except sugar.
The juice should just cover the top.
Add the sugar to taste.
Simmer about 5 minutes after the mixture comes to a boil.
Seal in prepared sterile jars.
This was my mother's recipe.
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