Peach Mangoes
A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).
A historical recipe
Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.
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From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
Method
- Pour boiling salt water over the peaches--let them stand two days;
- take them out and slit them on one side, and put them in turmeric vinegar for two days.
- Extract the seed, stuff and sew them up, and put in the prepared vinegar.
- Prepare the stuffing as follows: chop some of the peaches from the turmeric vinegar, add a large quantity of mustard-seed, celery-seed, a good deal of brown sugar--one pound to two and a half pounds peaches;
- ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, turmeric, and any other spices, if you like.
- Onions chopped fine.
- Vinegar to be seasoned the same way;
- and any of the stuffing left may be put in the vinegar.--Mrs.
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