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week. If you have not enough of vinegar to fill the jars up to the top, add some
cold, and strew among the nuts some blades of mace. Finish with a large spoon
ful of salad oil at the top of each jar.
28. Pickled Cauliflowers. Take large, ripe, full blown cauliflowers. Remove the
leaves and stalk, and divide the blossoms into pieces or clusters of equal size
Throw them into a porcelain kettle of boiling water, (adding a little salt) let
them simmer and skim them well. When they come to a boil, take them up with a
perforated skimmer, and lay them on a sieve to drain Put them into stone jars,
(three parts full). Season with mace and nutmeg infused in sufficient of the
best cider vinegar, and simmer it for 1/4 hour. When it comes to a boil take it
off the fire and pour it hot over the cauliflower in the jar, filling quite up
to the top and adding sweet oil at the last. Cover tightly.
29. Mixed Pickles. 2 quarts of cauliflower slips, 2 quarts of onions, English
celery, carrots sliced, 300 small pickles, 4 ounces of radish seed, 4 ounces of
nasturtium seeds, brine strong enough to carry an egg and poured over each
article separately, boiling hot, and leave in the brine for 48 hours. Then drain
and fill into jars or glasses. 8 quarts of vinegar, scalded, 1 quart of Vinegar
to dissolve 3 cupfuls of flour, 3 cupfuls of sugar, 1/4 cupful of mustard
powder, 2 ounces of curry powder, and stir this into the boiling vinegar and
pour over the pickles.
30. Chow-Chow. 1/4 peck of small string beans, 1/4 peck of tomatoes, 3 dozen
ears of corn, 2 dozen very small cucumbers, 1 quart of small onions, 1 dozen
green peppers, 1 head of cauliflower, 1/4 pound of white mustard seed, 1/4 pound
of black mustard seed, 1 tablespoonful of celery seed, 1/2 pound of ground
mustard, 2 teaspoonfuls of tumeric powder, 2 tablespoonfuls of salad oil.
Salt the beans, tomatoes, peppers and onions, and set aside for 12 hours. Make a
brine for the cucumbers and cauliflowers, pour it over them and set aside for
the same length of time. When all is ready to mix, cut the corn from the cob,
mix all together in a kettle excepting the oil and tumeric powder, and cover the
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