Green Tomato Mincemeat
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Jelly, vinegar, and two-cup-suet cold-pack recipe
Blue Binder handwritten page
Ingredients
- 1 peck green tomatoes
- 3 qts apples (after their ground)
- 3 1/2 lb brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon salt
- 2 tablespoon clove
- 2 lbs raisins
- 1 lb currant or cherry currant jelly
- 1 cup vinegar
- 2 cups Suet
Directions
- Grind tomatoes, cover with clear hot water, about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Drain but not dry.
- Put apples and all spices, sugar and rest of ingredients together and boil.
- Put in tomatoes boil stirring so as not to burn. Boil about 15 min.
- Put into jars and cold pack about 10 minutes.
Timing: about 5 to 10 minutes; about 15 min.; about 10 minutes
Temperature: clear hot water; boil; cold pack
Equipment: food grinder; large heat-safe vessel; measuring vessels and scale; stirring utensil; strainer; cooking pot; canning jars and closures; cold-pack canner
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “3 1/2 lb brown sugar”
Salt-rest, orange, lemon-or-vinegar, and one-cup-suet recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin two-card set
Yield: Six qts
Ingredients
- 1 pk. Green Tomatoes
- 2 Tbs salt
- 1 cup suet + 1/2 cup water
- 3 lb brown sugar
- 2 lb raisins
- 2 tsp ground Cinn
- 1 tsp ground cloves; 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Grated rind of 1 orange
- 3 Cups chopped apples
- 3 lemons (pulp + juice) or 1/3 cup vinegar
Directions
- Chop up 1 pk. Green Tomatoes Sprinkle 2 Tbs salt and let stand 1 hour.
- Drain, Cover with cold water and boil 5 min. Drain.
- Add 1 cup suet + 1/2 cup water simmer 20 min.
- Stir in 3 lb brown sugar + boil until dissolved.
- Boil rapid till thick. Pack & seal in hot clean jars (Big qts)
- Add 2 lb raisins; boil rapidly till thick; pack and seal in hot clean jars; (Six qts)
Timing: let stand 1 hour; boil 5 min.; simmer 20 min.
Temperature: boil; simmer; boil rapidly; hot clean jars
Equipment: chopping tool, cooking vessel, strainer or draining setup, stirring utensil, and six-quart canning jars with seals
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “Cups”
Compare the cards
Sweetener, fat, fruit, acid, and spices
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- 3 1/2 lb brown sugar; 2 cups suet; 3 qts ground apples; currant or cherry-currant jelly; 1 cup vinegar; tablespoon-scale cinnamon and clove
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-card set
- 3 lb brown sugar; 1 cup suet plus 1/2 cup water; 3 Cups chopped apples; orange rind; 3 lemons or 1/3 cup vinegar; teaspoon-scale cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg
Tomato preparation, cooking, and jar handling
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- Cover ground tomatoes with clear hot water for about 5 to 10 minutes, drain but not dry, boil other ingredients, add tomatoes, boil about 15 minutes, jar, and cold pack about 10 minutes
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-card set
- Salt chopped tomatoes for 1 hour, drain, cover with cold water and boil 5 minutes, drain, simmer with suet and water 20 minutes, dissolve sugar, add raisins and remaining ingredients, boil rapidly until thick, then pack and seal in hot clean jars
Stated yield
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- No yield stated
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-card set
- Six qts
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