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French Tomato 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.

Ingredients 12 ingredients

  1. two teaspoons cinnamon
  2. one pound sugar
  3. two teaspoons allspice
  4. One peck green tomatoes
  5. two teaspoons cloves
  6. two tablespoons turmeric
  7. two quarts strong vinegar
  8. Pickle
  9. two tablespoons curry pow-
  10. six onions
  11. one teacup salt over
  12. two teaspoons mustard
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Cook safely

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

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. One peck green tomatoes, six onions nicely sliced ;
  2. sprinkle one teacup salt over and stand all night ;.
  3. then drain well and scald in weak vinegar ten or fifteen minutes;
  4. drain again and scald with two quarts strong vinegar, one pound sugar, two tablespoons curry pow-, der, two tablespoons turmeric, two teaspoons cinnamon, two teaspoons cloves, two teaspoons allspice, two teaspoons mustard;
  5. simmer all together slowly a few minutes.
  6. It is a beautiful ‘rich pickle.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander