Gertrude’s Beet Pickles

Pull beets, wash with hose and wait a bit.  cut off stems, leaving 3-4 in.  Cook in large container in hot water until tender but not mushy.  Peel, then cut into chunks or slices.  Small beets may be left whole.  Add to boiling syrup and heat through.  Pack in hot, sterilized jars.  Seal, process 10-15 [...]

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Ripe Cucumber Pickles

Peel, seed, and cut.  Let stand over night with salt.  Drain and cook tender in half vinegar and half water.  Drain.
To one qt vinegar add 2 1/2 lb sugar (brown or white), 1 tsp. cinnamon, and cloves if you wish  Cook until tender and can hot.

If you cook something until it is tender twice, what [...]

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Edna’s Ripe Cucumber Pickles

8 lbs ripe cucumbers
2 lbs sugar
1 T. each of

cinnamon
allspice
pepper

2 T. vinegar
1 qt vinegar

Cook until soft, seal while hot.

I just put up 100 pounds of tomatoes today, there is no way I could even think about pickles at this moment.

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Pickled Pumpkin

cut in cubes
to 1 qt vinegar add 3 cups white sugar.  1 or 2 cinnamon bark, thimble of cloves put in a bag and take out after theya re done.
cook until soft.  Put in jars.  Use enough vinegar to cook.

Pumpkin is not something I would ever think of pickling.  Pumpkin is something that I never [...]

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Dutch Salad

2 qts chopped green tomatoes
1 qt chopped onions
1 qt chopped cucumbers
1 small cabbage (chopped)
3 red peppers
1/2 cup salt

Mix well and drain for 1/2 hour.
Dressing

4 cups sugar
1 cup flour
8 T. mustard
1 T. tumeric

Mix gradually with 3 pints cold vinegar.  Add vegetables and heat through.  Seal in glass jars.

This actually sounds really good.  Jars and jars of [...]

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Mock Raspberry Preserves

5 c green tomatoes, ground
5 c. sugar, boil for 5 min.
Add 1 lg 6 oz. raspberry Jell-o, and stir and bring to a rolling boil.  Continue to boil 5 min.  Put in jars and seal.  Let stand a day or so before using.

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Raspberry Rhubarb Jam

4 cups rhubarb cut up fine
4 cups sugar
1 pkg (3 oz) raspberry jello
1 pkg frozen raspberries (10 oz.)
Mix rhubarb and sugar (no water). cook till rhubarb is very tender. Immediately add the jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from the heat and add frozen raspberries and stir until melted. Pour in [...]

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