Cold Catsup
1/2 pk tomatoes
1 chopped onion
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup white mustard seed
2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon red pepper
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon cloves
1 cup sugar
1 pt vinegar
-Mother Healey
No additional instructions.
Found in "Gold Medal Cook Book" published by Gold Medal Flour; manufactured by Washburn-Crosby Co., 1904.
I have made a recipe similar to this, and often. :)
ReplyDeleteJust cut up those tomatoes (seed & peel them first), then boil down with the onions & spices. Put them in jars & seal.
It's actually really good with fish.
I hope nobody thinks to put it on the Ice Cream Puffs printed just above this hand-written recipe! Although maybe that just shows my anti-catsup bias, not an inherent food mispairing...
ReplyDeletethe 1/2 pk probably means 1./2 a peck, r the amount of tomatoes to fill a bag similar t this one:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Half_peck_apple_bag.jpg