Posted: 10/8/2010 11:08:17 AM EDT
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Man I love this stuff. Put up around 30 jars this week.
Anyone else make it? 
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Man I love this stuff. Put up around 30 jars this week. Anyone else make it? http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/glockguy/8a0ce14e.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/glockguy/7d95a1bc.jpg Damn that looks good Zedhead...  Nothing like some good ole homemade chow chow.
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Looks like a spicy relish. Some make it sweet others make it with a nice kick to it. Unfortunately I don't make my own...I like to try different ones made local or the surrounding areas I visit. I love chow chow on hot dogs, hamburgers, brats, crackers, black eye peas, field peas, purple hull peas, pinto beans...yum yum...
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What goes in it? Let me just say a food processor saves you hours of chopping. Cabbage Green tomatoes Onion Green and red peppers. Sugar Salt Mustard Seed Ginger Tumeric Vinegar When you eat it it is hard to pick out any one of the things in it. It is sweet and sour and has a lot going flavor wise. |
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Here is Granny SH's recipe. It came out of the Ft. Worth, Texas area and is about a hundred years old.
Granny’s Chow-Chow 2 parts cabbage shredded 2 parts tomatoes ground and drained well 1 ½ parts hot pepper 4 cups vinegar 3 cups sugar 3 T salt Bring all to a low simmer and can. Granny usually used jalapenos but when some wise-ass complained it wasn't hot enough she always had a jar of habanero around. |
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What goes in it? Let me just say a food processor saves you hours of chopping. Cabbage Green tomatoes Onion Green and red peppers. Sugar Salt Mustard Seed Ginger Tumeric Vinegar When you eat it it is hard to pick out any one of the things in it. It is sweet and sour and has a lot going flavor wise. This looks really good, can you tell us the quantity's of each ingredient? My Aunt Jesse used to make something like this, but now it's lost to the ages. |
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Ah yea...Friday dinner. Grilled hotdogs with Zedhead's awesome chow chow... ...baked beans, tater tots and some local beer. Thank goodness my better half doesn't like chow chow...more for me...
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e251/the_accuser/dinner1.jpg Easy 11/10. 
Here is the recipe we use: 1 quart chopped cabbage (about 1 small head cabbage) 3 cups chopped cauliflower (about 1 medium head cauliflower) 2 cups chopped green tomatoes (about 4 medium) 2 cups chopped onions (about 2 medium) 2 cups chopped green peppers (about 4 small) 1 cup chopped red peppers (about 2 small) (Run all of this through the food processor/chopper) 3 Tablespoons salt 1 1/2 cup sugar 2 teaspoons celery seed 2 teaspoons dry mustard 1 teaspoon mustard seed 1 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 teaspoon ginger 2 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar Combine chopped vegetables in a large bowl and sprinkle with salt. Let them stand for 4 or more hours covered with a cloth in a cool area. (Kitchen counter.) Drain the vegetables well after the 4 hours. Combine vinegar, sugar and the spices in a large pot. Simmer 10 minutes. Add vegetables and simmer 10 more minutes. Pack into hot, clean jars, leave 1/4 head space. Cap and seal. Process 20 minutes in boiling water bath. (Times may vary for processing according to altitude.) Makes 4 pints. |
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Sorry for the delay, but I had to find it.
1Peck Green Tomatoes 1/2 large cabbage or 1 small cabbage 4 large onions or 6 small onions 6 red bell peppers 6 green bell peppers 8-10 large hot peppers or 10-12 small hot peppers 9 cups vinegar 7 cups sugar 2 tbs. mixed pickling spice salt First Quarter tomatoes and cut out dark spots Cut up in large pan Sprinkle each layer of tomatoes with salt then cover with water and let stand until you coarsely grind and chop all the other things. Then drain salt water from tomatoes and rinse. Mix all together Second In a large dishpan put 9 cups vinegar 7 cups sugar Tie 2 tablespoons mixed pickling spice in a spice bag Cook vinegar, sugar, and pickling spice for 15 or 20 min. Third Then add tomato mix to vinegar, sugar, and pickling spice. Cook all this for 20-30 min. Fourth Can in sterile pint size jars. Makes 15-17 pints |
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OKay Zed. I'll have ~14 pints out of the canner tonight. I didn't want to go overboard on my first batch of your recipe. Only the cauliflower and onions came from the grocery. Everything else came from the garden or farmer's market.
Preliminary taste tests are awesome. |