Spanish Pickles

A dish that starts with peck green tomatoes and finishes with onions.

Pickling

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • 1 peck green tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • 4 onions, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup salt
  • ½ oz. cloves
  • ½ oz. allspice berries
  • ½ oz. peppercorns
  • ½ cup brown mustard seed
  • 1 lb. brown sugar
  • 4 green peppers, finely chopped
  • Cider vinegar

Steps

  1. Sprinkle alternate layers of tomatoes and onions with salt, and let stand over night. In the morning drain, and put in a preserving kettle, adding remaining ingredients, using enough vinegar to cover all. Heat gradually to boiling-point and boil one-half hour.

Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States