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French Pickle

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. Mustard seed
  2. six large onions
  3. one peck of green tomatoes
  4. three pounds of brown sugar
  5. two quarts of water
  6. one quart vinegar
  7. Cloves
  8. Allspice
  9. two tablespoons each of cinnamon
  10. Salt
Contains MustardSulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Slice one peck of green tomatoes with six large onions.
  2. Let stand twenty-four hours in weak salt and water.
  3. Drain and cook until tender in two quarts of water and one quart vinegar.
  4. Let them stand for several days and then drain and make a syrup of three quarts of vinegar, three pounds of brown sugar, one-fourth pound mustard seed, two tablespoons each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice.
  5. Pour over them cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander