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Green Tomato Mince Pie

From Better Food (1921).

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A historical recipe

Better Food, by The Boston Cooking-School Magazine Company (1921).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. One peck of green tomatoes
  2. 3 pounds brown sugar
  3. 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon Boil all together
  4. one cup of vinegar
  5. one cup of chopped apple

Cook safely

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

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • 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 of green tomatoes, put through a food chopper.
  2. Boil, drain and add as much water a$ juice drained out.
  3. Scald and drain again.
  4. Add water as before, scald and redrain.
  5. This time add half as much water, then the following: — 3 pounds brown sugar.
  6. 2 tablespoonfuls cloves 2 pounds raisins 2 tablespoonfuls all- 2 tablespoonfuls nut- spice meg 2 tablespoonfuls salt 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon Boil all together, and add one cup of vinegar.
  7. Cook till thick as desired.
  8. Put in jars and seal.
  9. To one pint of this mixture add one cup of chopped apple and the juice and rind, grated or ground.
  10. Sweeten to taste, fill crust and bake as the usual mince pie.
  11. Evaporated apples may be used, but grind before soaking and do not cook.
  12. These pies will not harm children, and are very inexpensive, as compared to those made of mincemeat.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Grater
  • Colander
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From Better Food (1921), printed page 293, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BetterFoodV26

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.