Sandwich Spread
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Cucumber, cabbage, and turmeric recipe
Growson box two-sided handwritten card
Sandwich Spread
Ingredients
- 1 qt green tomatoes
- 1 qt Cucumbers unpared.
- 1 qt onions
- 1 qt cabbage
- 3 green peppers
- 3/4 cup salt + 3 qt wat...
- 1/2 cup prepared mustard; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 tablespoon celery seed; 1 tablespoon turmeric powder; 1 pt. Vinegar
Directions
- Measure after Grinding.
- Grind thru food chopper, let stand over night in 3/4 cup salt + 3 qt wat...
- Cook 20 min. stirring Constantly to keep from burning. Seal in hot jars.
Timing: 20 min.
Temperature: Cook; hot jars
Equipment: food chopper and jars
As written
over; two ditto marks; complete reverse text
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Ingredients
- ½ cup prepared mustard
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 [ditto] celery seed; 1 [ditto] turmeric powder; 1 pt. Vinegar
Directions
- Cook 20 min. stirring Constantly to keep from burning
- Seal in hot jars.
Timing: 20 min.
Temperature: Cook; hot jars
Equipment: jars
Mildred Wilson mayonnaise and French-mustard recipe
Mildred Wilson three-surface handwritten card
From Mildred Wilson.
Ingredients
- 1 gal green tomatoes
- 1 gal onions
- 6 green peppers
- 6 red peppers, with ditto marks repeating peppers from the preceding line
- 2 stalks celery
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 qt vinegar
- 1 qt sugar
- 1 qt Mayonaise, a card misspelling of mayonnaise
- 1 10 oz jar French Mustard
Directions
- Gring all and mix with 1/2 cup salt.
- Let stand over night. In morning drain: then mix:
- 1 qt vinegar; 1 qt sugar, boil to-gether 25 Minutes,
- Cool, if to much vinegar, where to is a card typo for too drain for a few minutes before mixing
- Mix and seal in jars.
Timing: over night; 25 Minutes; a few minutes
Temperature: boil vinegar and sugar together; cool before mixing mayonnaise and mustard
Equipment: grinder; overnight holding container; draining vessel; cooking pot; mixing utensil; jars and closures
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Vegetable base
- Growson box two-sided handwritten card
- 1 quart each green tomatoes, unpared cucumbers, onions, and cabbage, with 3 green peppers
- Mildred Wilson three-surface handwritten card
- 1 gallon each green tomatoes and onions, 6 green peppers, 6 red peppers, and 2 stalks celery
Sugar, vinegar, and batch scale
- Growson box two-sided handwritten card
- 9 cups sugar and 1 pint vinegar for a quart-scale vegetable batch
- Mildred Wilson three-surface handwritten card
- 1 quart sugar and 1 quart vinegar for a gallon-scale vegetable batch
Thickener, seasoning, and final mixture
- Growson box two-sided handwritten card
- Flour, prepared mustard, butter, celery seed, and turmeric cook with the drained vegetables and vinegar
- Mildred Wilson three-surface handwritten card
- 1 quart mayonnaise and one 10-ounce jar French mustard are mixed in after the vinegar and sugar mixture cools
Cooking, cooling, mixing, and jar handling
- Growson box two-sided handwritten card
- Cook 20 minutes and seal in hot jars
- Mildred Wilson three-surface handwritten card
- Boil vinegar and sugar 25 minutes, cool, optionally drain excess vinegar, mix in mayonnaise and mustard, and seal in jars
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